Bible Verses About Commandments

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers--especially they of the circumcision--

whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Servants--to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

and we desire each one of you the same diligence to shew, unto the full assurance of the hope unto the end,

that ye may not become slothful, but followers of those who through faith and patient endurance are inheriting the promises.

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;