Titus 3 King James Version 1611
From Textus Receptus
- 1 Put them in minde to bee subiect to Principalities & Powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to euery good worke,
- 2 To speake euill of no man, to bee no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekenesse vnto all men.
- 3 For we our selues also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceiued, seruing diuers lusts and pleasures, liuing in malice and enuy, hatefull, and hating one another.
- 4 But after that the kindnesse and loue of God our Sauiour toward man appeared,
- 5 Not by workes of righteousnesse which wee haue done, but according to his mercy he saued vs, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the holy Ghost,
- 6 Which hee shed on vs abundantly, through Iesus Christ our Sauiour:
- 7 That being iustified by his grace, we should bee made heires according to the hope of eternall life.
- 8 This is a faithfull saying, and these things I will that thou affirme constantly, that they which haue beleeued in God, might be carefull to maintaine good works: these things are good and profitable vnto men.
- 9 But auoyd foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and striuings about the lawe; for they are vnprofitable and vaine.
- 10 A man that is an heretike, after the first and second admonition, reiect:
- 11 Knowing that hee that is such, is subuerted, and sinneth, being condemned of himselfe.
- 12 When I shall send Artemas vnto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come vnto mee to Nicopolis: for I haue determined there to winter.
- 13 Bring Zenas the Lawyer, and Apollos, on their iourney diligently, that nothing be wanting vnto them.
- 14 And let ours also learne to maintaine good workes for necessarie vses, that they be not vnfruitfull.
- 15 All that are with mee salute thee. Greete them that loue vs in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. [It was written to Titus ordeined the first Bishop of the Church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.]
