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Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to declare the faith which recommends men to the divine favour, and to convince them of that truth, which leads to piety,

and gives the expectation of eternal life, which the God of veracity promised so many ages ago;

and has in due time manifested by the preaching of his word, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our saviour:

TO Titus my own convert to the common faith: grace and peace from God the father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour.

for a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not morose, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not desirous of unlawful gain.

they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.

that the word of God may not be blasphemed. the young men likewise exhort to be modest.

entirely obsequious without grumbling. not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

in expectation of that desirable happiness, the glorious appearance of the supreme God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ,

but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind,

This is a secure rule, and what I would have you constantly maintain, that they who have believed in God, should take care to be examples of virtue, for that is commendable and useful to mankind.

from God our father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and thank my God for the account I have of your faith in the Lord Jesus and the love you bear to all the saints;

God who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his SON,

and when he re-introduces the first-begotten into the world, he saith, " and let all the angels of God worship him."

but to the son he saith, "God is thy throne for ever and ever; the sceptre of thy kingdom is a sceptre of equity.

thou hast loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy peers."

God also giving an additional testimony both by signs, by prodigies, by divers miracles, and gifts of the holy spirit, which he distributes as he pleases.

and again, "I will put my trust in him." and again, "behold, I, and the children which God hath given me.

no house is without a builder; now he that built the whole house of Israel is God.