w also, Philippians, that at the beginning
of the gospel, when I went out from Macedonia, no church communicated
with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you only;
[4:16]for even in Thessalonica and once and again you sent to my need.
[4:17]Not that I desire a gift, but I desire the fruit which abounds to
your account. [4:18]But I have all things and abound, I am fully
supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a
perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.
[4:19]And God shall fully supply all your need, according to his riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. [4:20]To our God and Father be the glory
forever and ever; amen.

7 [4:21]Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me salute
you. [4:22]All the saints salute you, especially those of Caesar's
family. [4:23] The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

THE EPISTLE TO TITUS.

PHILIPPI, A.D. 64.

CHAPTER I.

A CHARGE TO TITUS IN RESPECT TO HIS MINISTRY.

1 [1:1]PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth
which is according to piety, [1:2]for the hope of eternal life, which
God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages, [1:3]but manifested
his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with
which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,
[1:4]to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from
God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

2 [1:5]For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate
things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I
charged you, [1:6]if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife,
having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of
insubordination. [1:7]For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of
God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not
contentious, not devoted to base gain, [1:8]but a lover of hospitality,
kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying, [1:9]holding firmly the faithful
word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction
and to convince those who contradict. [1:10]For there are many
disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the
circumcision, [1:11]whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole
families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.

3 [1:12]A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cr