{"reference":"Titus 1:5-9","verses":[{"book_id":"TIT","book_name":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":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:\n"},{"book_id":"TIT","book_name":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":6,"text":"If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.\n"},{"book_id":"TIT","book_name":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":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;\n"},{"book_id":"TIT","book_name":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":8,"text":"But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;\n"},{"book_id":"TIT","book_name":"Titus","chapter":1,"verse":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.\n"}],"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:\nIf any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.\nFor 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;\nBut a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;\nHolding 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.\n","translation_id":"kjv","translation_name":"King James Version","translation_note":"Public Domain"}