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## Titus 1:8-9 in Context (Verses 5–12 KJV)
 
 [5 ](/kjv/titus/1/5) For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
 
 [6 ](/kjv/titus/1/6) If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/titus/1/7) For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
 
 [8 ](/kjv/titus/1/8) But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
 
 [9 ](/kjv/titus/1/9) Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
 
 [10 ](/kjv/titus/1/10) For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
 
 [11 ](/kjv/titus/1/11) Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
 
 [12 ](/kjv/titus/1/12) One of themselves, *even* a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians *are* alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
 
[2 Timothy 4](/kjv/2-timothy/4) [Titus 2](/kjv/titus/2)

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