{"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/dbt/titus/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:11:58.385Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Titus","bookSlug":"titus","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect, and knowledge of the truth which is according to piety;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"to Titus, my own child according to the faith common to us: Grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All things are pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work."}],"citation":{"inline":"Titus 1 (DBT)","markdown":"[Titus 1](https://primebible.com/dbt/titus/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/titus/1 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}