Tito 1

¹ Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety,

² upon hope of life age-during, which God, who does not lie, did promise before times of ages,

³ (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

⁴ to Titus — true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

⁵ For this cause left I you in Crete, that the things lacking you may arrange, and may set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to you;

⁶ if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfastfaithful, not under accusation of riotous livingreckless lifestyleor insubordinate —

⁷ for it benefits the overseer to be blameless, as God's stewardadministrator, not self-pleasedarrogant, egocentric, nor irasciblehot-tempered, prone to anger, not given to wine, not a strikerbrawler, not given to filthy lucrebase gain;

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 —

¹¹ whose mouth it benefits to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it benefits not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹² A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

¹³ this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

¹⁵ all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfastunfaithfulis nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

¹⁶ God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.