²¹For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²²For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
²³I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
²⁴Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
²⁵With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;
²⁶With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
²⁷For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.
²⁸For thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
²⁹For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
³⁰As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
³¹For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God?
³²It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.
³³He maketh my feet like hinds feet, and setteth me upon my high places.
³⁴He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
³⁵Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.
³⁶Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

⁶In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
⁷For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
⁸And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
¹²For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
¹³Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
¹⁴Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord their God.
¹⁵And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
¹⁶And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
¹⁷And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
¹⁸Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of Gods elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
²In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
³But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
⁴To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
⁵For 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:
⁶If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
⁷For 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;
⁸But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
⁹Holding 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.
¹⁰For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
¹¹Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucres sake.
¹²One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
¹³This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
¹⁴Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
¹⁵Unto 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.
¹⁶They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.