{"id":"TIT.1.1","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":1,"reference":"Titus 1:1","text":"Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;"}
{"id":"TIT.1.2","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":2,"reference":"Titus 1:2","text":"In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"}
{"id":"TIT.1.3","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":3,"reference":"Titus 1:3","text":"But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;"}
{"id":"TIT.1.4","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":4,"reference":"Titus 1:4","text":"To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour."}
{"id":"TIT.1.5","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":5,"reference":"Titus 1:5","text":"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:"}
{"id":"TIT.1.6","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":6,"reference":"Titus 1:6","text":"If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly."}
{"id":"TIT.1.7","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":7,"reference":"Titus 1:7","text":"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;"}
{"id":"TIT.1.8","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":8,"reference":"Titus 1:8","text":"But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;"}
{"id":"TIT.1.9","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":9,"reference":"Titus 1:9","text":"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."}
{"id":"TIT.1.10","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":10,"reference":"Titus 1:10","text":"For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:"}
{"id":"TIT.1.11","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":11,"reference":"Titus 1:11","text":"Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake."}
{"id":"TIT.1.12","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":12,"reference":"Titus 1:12","text":"One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."}
{"id":"TIT.1.13","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":13,"reference":"Titus 1:13","text":"This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;"}
{"id":"TIT.1.14","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":14,"reference":"Titus 1:14","text":"Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth."}
{"id":"TIT.1.15","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":15,"reference":"Titus 1:15","text":"Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled."}
{"id":"TIT.1.16","translation_id":"kjv-eng-kjv2006","book_id":"TIT","book":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":16,"reference":"Titus 1:16","text":"They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate."}