8But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:


In Context

5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

6 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.

7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

8 But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

9 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers.

10 For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:

Titus 1:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:8Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self- controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:8but given to hospitality, as lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, soberminded, just, holy, temperate;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;