Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁶⁵ TETH. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Jehovah, according to thy word.

⁶⁶ Teach me good discernment and knowledge; for I have believed in thy commandments.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy word.

⁶⁸ Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

⁶⁹ The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with [my] whole heart.

⁷⁰ Their heart is as fat as grease: as for me, I delight in thy law.

⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.

⁷² The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

¹² For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;

¹³ and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan;

¹⁴ and upon all the lofty mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up;

¹⁵ and upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall;

¹⁶ and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant works of art.

¹⁷ And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day:

1 Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to [the] faith of God's elect, and knowledge of [the] truth which [is] according to piety;

² in [the] hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,

³ but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the] proclamation with which *I* have been entrusted, according to [the] commandment of our Saviour God;

⁴ to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁵ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained [unordered], and establish elders in each city, as *I* had ordered thee:

⁶ if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

⁷ For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him] as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

⁸ but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

⁹ clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.