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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "TIT-1:1",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.1",
        "text": "Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God`s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "TIT-1:2",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.2",
        "text": "in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "TIT-1:3",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.3",
        "text": "but in his own seasons manifested his word in the message, wherewith I was intrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour;"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "TIT-1:4",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.4",
        "text": "to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "TIT-1:5",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.5",
        "text": "For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "TIT-1:6",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.6",
        "text": "if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "TIT-1:7",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.7",
        "text": "For the bishop must be blameless, as God`s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "TIT-1:8",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.8",
        "text": "but given to hospitality, as lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "TIT-1:9",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.9",
        "text": "holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "TIT-1:10",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.10",
        "text": "For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "TIT-1:11",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.11",
        "text": "whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre`s sake."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "TIT-1:12",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.12",
        "text": "One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "TIT-1:13",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.13",
        "text": "This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "TIT-1:14",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.14",
        "text": "not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "TIT-1:15",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.15",
        "text": "To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "TIT-1:16",
        "verseRef": "TIT.1.16",
        "text": "They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."
      }
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