{"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/drb/titus/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T22:04:57.399Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","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 the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior: "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"To Titus my beloved son, according to the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Savior. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee: "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre: "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent: "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision: "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn themselves away from the truth. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him; being abominable, and incredulous, and to every good work reprobate. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Titus 1 (DRB)","markdown":"[Titus 1](https://primebible.com/drb/titus/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/titus/1 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}