A moment in scripture
Titus 1:9
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- 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;
- Titus 1:8
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
- Titus 1:10
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
- Titus 1:11
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.