Titus 1:8

contrariwise, fond-foreign/guest-able/hospitable, fond-beneficial, sound-disposition-ive, just, pious, held-in/self-controlled,

Garth's Hyper-literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7for it-is-necessitating the watch-upon-er/overseer/supervisor to-be-being without-call-in/charge/indictment as house-legislator of{God}, not self-appraising/conceited/haughty/arrogant, not wrathful, not beside-wine-ous, not [a] brawler, not shameful[i.e. ill-gotten/greedy/sordid/dishonest]-gain-eous,

9holding-self-in-place-of of{the faithful word} according-to the teaching, in-which-place he-may-be-being enabled/empowered and to-be-calling-aside in to{the teaching-ia, the being-healthy} and to-be-confuting the[plural] saying-in-place-of/in-opposition-to/contradicting/rebutting,

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Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:10you witnesses and the God, as piously and justly and blamelessly to{you} we-are-becomed to{the[plural] believing},

1 Timothy 4:12No-one: be-disregarding of{you, the youth}; contrariwise, be-becoming [an] imprint/replica/type of{the[plural] faithful}, in to{word}, in to{turn-anew/conversion}, in to{love}, in to{faith}, in to{purity}.

2 Timothy 2:22Moreover, be-fleeing the younger-ish desire-upon-ias; moreover, be-chasing justice-ness, faith, love, peace, alongside of{the calling-selves-upon} the Lord out of{[a] clean heart}.

Matthew Henry on Titus 1:7-16

The Qualifications of a Bishop; The Necessity of Sharp Reproof. ( a. d. 66.) 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort… Read the whole commentary →

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