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Titus","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TITUS\n\nSt. Paul, having preached the faith in the island of Crete, he ordained\nhis beloved disciple and companion, Titus, bishop, and left him there to\nfinish the work which he had begun. Afterwards the Apostle, on a journey\nto Nicopolis, a city of Macedonia, wrote this Epistle to Titus, in which\nhe directs him to ordain bishops and priests for the different cities,\nshewing him the principal qualities necessary for a bishop. He also\ngives him particular advice for his own conduct to his flock, exhorting\nhim to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with lenity. It\nwas written about thirty-three years after our Lord's Ascension.\n\n\nTitus Chapter 1\n\nWhat kind of men he is to ordain priests. Some men are to be sharply\nrebuked.\n\n1:1. Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to\nthe faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which\nis according to godliness:\n\n1:2. Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath\npromised before the times of the world:\n\n1:3. But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is\ncommitted to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:\n\n1:4. To Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and\npeace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Saviour.\n\n1:5. For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in\norder the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every\ncity, as I also appointed thee:\n\n1:6. If any be without crime, the husband of one wife having faithful\nchildren, not accused of riot or unruly.\n\n1:7. For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not\nproud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy\nof filthy lucre:\n\n1:8. But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:\n\n1:9. Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that\nhe may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the\ngainsayers.\n\n1:10. For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers:\nespecially they who are of the circumcision.\n\n1:11. Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things\nwhich they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.\n\n1:12. One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always\nliars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.\n\n1:13. This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they\nmay be sound in the faith:\n\n1:14. Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn\nthemselves away from the truth.\n\n1:15. All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled\nand to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their\nconscience are defiled.\n\n1:16. They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him:\nbeing abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.\n\nTitus Chapter 2\n\nHow he is to instruct both old and young. The duty of servants.  The\nChristian's rule of life.\n\n2:1. But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine:\n\n2:2. That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in\nlove, in patience.\n\n2:3. The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers,\nnot given to much wine, teaching well:\n\n2:4. That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their\nhusbands, to love their children.\n\n2:5. To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle,\nobedient to their husbands: that the word of God be not blasphemed.\n\n2:6. Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober.\n\n2:7. In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine,\nin integrity, in gravity,\n\n2:8. The sound word that can not be blamed: that he who is on the\ncontrary part may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.\n\n2:9. Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things\npleasing, not gainsaying:\n\n2:10. Not defrauding, but in all things shewing good fidelity, that they\nmay adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.\n\n2:11. For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:\n\n2:12. Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we\nshould live soberly and justly and godly in this world,\n\n2:13. Looking for the blessed hope and coming of the glory of the great\nGod and our Saviour Jesus Christ.\n\n2:14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity\nand might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good\nworks.\n\n2:15. These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority.  Let\nno man despise thee.\n\nTitus Chapter 3\n\nOther instructions and directions for life and doctrine.\n\n3:1. Admonish them to be subject to princes and powers, to obey at a\nword, to be ready to every good work.\n\n3:2. To speak evil of no man, not to be litigious but gentle: shewing\nall mildness towards all men.\n\n3:3. For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring,\nslaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy,\nhateful and hating one another.\n\n3:4. But when the goodness and kindness of God our Saviour appeared:\n\n3:5. Not by the works of justice which we have done, but according to\nhis mercy, he saved us, by the laver of regeneration and renovation of\nthe Holy Ghost.\n\n3:6. Whom he hath poured forth upon us abundantly, through Jesus Christ\nour Saviour:\n\n3:7. That, being justified by his grace, we may be heirs according to\nhope of life everlasting.\n\n3:8. It is a faithful saying. And these things I will have thee affirm\nconstantly, that they who believe in God may be careful to excel in good\nworks. These things are good and profitable unto men.\n\n3:9. But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and\nstrivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain.\n\n3:10. A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition,\navoid:\n\n3:11. Knowing that he that is such an one is subverted and sinneth,\nbeing condemned by his own judgment.\n\nBy his own judgment... Other offenders are judged, and cast out of the\nchurch, by the sentence of the pastors of the same church.  Heretics,\nmore unhappy, run out of the church of their own accord, and by doing\nso, give judgment and sentence against their own souls.\n\n3:12. When I shall send to thee Artemas or Tychicus, make haste to come\nunto me to Nicopolis. For there I have determined to winter.\n\n3:13. Send forward Zenas the lawyer and Apollo, with care that nothing\nbe wanting to them.\n\n3:14. And let our men also learn to excel in good works for necessary\nuses: that they be not unfruitful.\n\n3:15. All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us in the\nfaith. The grace of God be with you all. Amen.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 63: Titus: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":1262}