| Titus 1:1 |
Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's chosen ones and the full knowledge of the truth, which is according to godliness, |
| Titus 1:2 |
In the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the times of the ages, |
| Titus 1:3 |
But in its own times He manifested [it as] His word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the command of our Savior God; |
| Titus 1:4 |
To Titus, genuine child according to the common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. |
| Titus 1:5 |
For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might set in order the things [which I have begun] that remain and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you: |
| Titus 1:6 |
If anyone is unreprovable, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of dissoluteness or unruly. |
| Titus 1:7 |
For the overseer must be unreprovable as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick tempered, not an excessive drinker, not a striker, not greedy for base gain; |
| Titus 1:8 |
But hospitable, a lover of good, of a sober mind, righteous, holy, self-controlled; |
| Titus 1:9 |
Holding to the faithful word, which is according to the teaching [of the apostles,] that he may be able both to exhort by the healthy teaching and to convict those who oppose. |
| Titus 1:10 |
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, |
| Titus 1:11 |
Whose mouths must be stopped, who overthrow whole households, teaching things for the sake of base gain, which they ought not to do. |
| Titus 1:12 |
One from among themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. |
| Titus 1:13 |
This testimony is true; for which cause reprove them severely that they may be healthy in the faith, |
| Titus 1:14 |
Not paying attention to Jewish myths and the commandments of men who turn away from the truth. |
| Titus 1:15 |
All things are pure to the pure; yet to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. |
| Titus 1:16 |
They profess to know God, but by their works they deny [Him,] being abominable and disobedient and, as to every good work, disapproved. |