Titus 1:5-9
1599 Geneva Bible
5 [a]For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest continue to redress the things that remain, and shouldest ordain Elders in every city as I ap-pointed thee.
6 (A)If any be unreproveable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are [b]disobedient.
7 [c]For a Bishop must be unreproveable, as God’s [d]steward, not [e]froward, not angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre,
8 But harberous, one that loveth goodness, [f]wise, righteous, holy, temperate,
9 [g]Holding fast that faithful word according to doctrine, [h]that he also may be able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and convince them that say against it.
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- Titus 1:5 The first admonition, to ordain Elders in every city.
- Titus 1:6 This word is proper to horses and oxen, which will not abide the yoke.
- Titus 1:7 The second admonition, what faults pastors (whom he comprehended afore under the word Elders) ought to be void of, and what virtues they ought to have.
- Titus 1:7 Whom the Lord hath appointed steward of his gifts.
- Titus 1:7 Not hard conditioned, and evil to please.
- Titus 1:8 Circumspect, of a sound judgment, and of a singular example of moderation.
- Titus 1:9 The third admonition: The Pastor must hold fast that doctrine, which the Apostles delivered, and pertaineth to salvation, leaving all curious and vain matters.
- Titus 1:9 The fourth admonition: To apply the knowledge of true doctrine unto use, which consisteth in two things, to wit, in governing them which show themselves apt to learn, and confuting the obstinate.
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