American King James Version
"But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; "
— Titus 1:8, American King James Version
“But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;”
“but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled; ”
“but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;”
“Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.”
“But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:”
“But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;”
“But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;”
For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you:
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the disputers.
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they should not, for filthy lucre’s sake.