{
  "Info": {
    "Language": "English",
    "Meaningless": "1.2.0",
    "Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:57:17.437706-04:00",
    "Translation": "NKJV"
  },
  "Titus": {
    "1": {
      "1": "Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness,",
      "2": "in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,",
      "3": "but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;",
      "4": "To Titus, a true son in our common faith:\nGrace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.",
      "5": "For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—",
      "6": "if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.",
      "7": "For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,",
      "8": "but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,",
      "9": "holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.",
      "10": "For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,",
      "11": "whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.",
      "12": "One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”",
      "13": "This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,",
      "14": "not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.",
      "15": "To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.",
      "16": "They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work."
    },
    "2": {
      "1": "But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:",
      "2": "that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;",
      "3": "the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—",
      "4": "that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,",
      "5": "to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.",
      "6": "Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,",
      "7": "in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility,",
      "8": "sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.",
      "9": "Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,",
      "10": "not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.",
      "11": "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,",
      "12": "teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,",
      "13": "looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,",
      "14": "who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.",
      "15": "Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you."
    },
    "3": {
      "1": "Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work,",
      "2": "to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men.",
      "3": "For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.",
      "4": "But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,",
      "5": "not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,",
      "6": "whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,",
      "7": "that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.",
      "8": "This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.",
      "9": "But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.",
      "10": "Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,",
      "11": "knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.",
      "12": "When I send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.",
      "13": "Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey with haste, that they may lack nothing.",
      "14": "And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful.",
      "15": "All who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith.\nGrace be with you all. Amen."
    }
  }
}