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


In Context

5 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;

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

7 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;

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

9 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;

10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:8But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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