Tito 1

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 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.