{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/titus/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T20:30:13.267Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Titus","bookSlug":"titus","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But has in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"To Titus, my own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the disputers."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"This witness is true. Why rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate."}],"citation":{"inline":"Titus 1 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Titus 1](https://primebible.com/akjv/titus/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/titus/1 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}