| 1 | ¶ Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to {the} faith of God?s elect, and knowledge of {the} truth which {is} according to piety; | |
| 2 | in {the} hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time, | |
| 3 | but has manifested in its own due season his word, in {the} proclamation with which *I* have been entrusted, according to {the} commandment of our Saviour God; | |
| 4 | to Titus, my own child according to {the} faith common {to us}: Grace and peace from God {the} Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour. | |
| 5 map | ¶ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained {unordered}, and establish elders in each city, as *I* had ordered thee: | |
| 6 | ¶ if any one be free from all charge {against him}, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly. | |
| 7 | For the overseer must be free from all charge {against him} as God?s steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means; | |
| 8 | but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate, | |
| 9 | clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers. | |
| 10 | For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people?s minds, specially those of {the} circumcision, | |
| 11 | who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not {to be taught} for the sake of base gain. | |
| 12 | One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons. | |
| 13 | This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith, | |
| 14 | not turning {their} minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth. | |
| 15 | All things {are} pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing {is} pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. | |
| 16 | They profess to know God, but in works deny {him}, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work. | |