1 P aul, a bond servant of God and an apostle (a special messenger) of Jesus Christ (the Messiah) to stimulate and promote the faith of God’s chosen ones and to lead them on to accurate discernment and recognition of and acquaintance with the Truth which belongs to and harmonizes with and tends to godliness,

Paul, serviteur de Dieu, et apôtre de Jésus Christ pour la foi des élus de Dieu et la connaissance de la vérité qui est selon la piété, -

2 i n the hope of eternal life, which the ever truthful God Who cannot deceive promised before the world or the ages of time began.

lesquelles reposent sur l'espérance de la vie éternelle, promise dès les plus anciens temps par le Dieu qui ne ment point,

3 A nd in His own appointed time He has made manifest (made known) His Word and revealed it as His message through the preaching entrusted to me by command of God our Savior;

et qui a manifesté sa parole en son temps par la prédication qui m'a été confiée d'après l'ordre de Dieu notre Sauveur, -

4 T o Titus, my true child according to a common (general) faith: Grace (favor and spiritual blessing) and peace from God the Father and the Lord Christ Jesus our Savior.

à Tite, mon enfant légitime en notre commune foi: que la grâce et la paix te soient données de la part de Dieu le Père et de Jésus Christ notre Sauveur!

5 F or this reason I left you in Crete, that you might set right what was defective and finish what was left undone, and that you might appoint elders and set them over the churches (assemblies) in every city as I directed you.

Je t'ai laissé en Crète, afin que tu mettes en ordre ce qui reste à régler, et que, selon mes instructions, tu établisses des anciens dans chaque ville,

6 m en who are of unquestionable integrity and are irreproachable, the husband of one wife, whose children are believers, not open to the accusation of being loose in morals and conduct or unruly and disorderly.

s'il s'y trouve quelque homme irréprochable, mari d'une seul femme, ayant des enfants fidèles, qui ne soient ni accusés de débauche ni rebelles.

7 F or the bishop (an overseer) as God’s steward must be blameless, not self-willed or arrogant or presumptuous; he must not be quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious (brawling, violent); he must not be grasping and greedy for filthy lucre (financial gain);

Car il faut que l'évêque soit irréprochable, comme économe de Dieu; qu'il ne soit ni arrogant, ni colère, ni adonné au vin, ni violent, ni porté à un gain déshonnête;

8 B ut he must be hospitable (loving and a friend to believers, especially to strangers and foreigners); a lover of goodness, sober-minded (sensible, discreet), upright and fair-minded, a devout man and religiously correct, temperate and keeping himself in hand.

mais qu'il soit hospitalier, ami des gens de bien, modéré, juste, saint, tempérant,

9 H e must hold fast to the sure and trustworthy Word of God as he was taught it, so that he may be able both to give stimulating instruction and encouragement in sound (wholesome) doctrine and to refute and convict those who contradict and oppose it.

attaché à la vraie parole telle qu'elle a été enseignée, afin d'être capable d'exhorter selon la saine doctrine et de réfuter les contradicteurs.

10 F or there are many disorderly and unruly men who are idle (vain, empty) and misleading talkers and self-deceivers and deceivers of others. especially of those of the circumcision party.

Il y a, en effet, surtout parmi les circoncis, beaucoup de gens rebelles, de vains discoureurs et de séducteurs,

11 T heir mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally distressing and subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage and disreputable gain.

auxquels il faut fermer la bouche. Ils bouleversent des familles entières, enseignant pour un gain honteux ce qu'on ne doit pas enseigner.

12 O ne of their number, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, hurtful beasts, idle and lazy gluttons.

L'un d'entre eux, leur propre prophète, a dit: Crétois toujours menteurs, méchantes bêtes, ventres paresseux.

13 A nd this account of them is true. Because it is, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith and free from error,

Ce témoignage est vrai. C'est pourquoi reprends-les sévèrement, afin qu'ils aient une foi saine,

14 c easing to give attention to Jewish myths and fables or to rules by men who reject and turn their backs on the Truth.

et qu'ils ne s'attachent pas à des fables judaïques et à des commandements d'hommes qui se détournent de la vérité.

15 T o the pure all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.

Tout est pur pour ceux qui sont purs; mais rien n'est pur pour ceux qui sont souillées et incrédules, leur intelligence et leur conscience sont souillés.

16 T hey profess to know God, but deny and disown and renounce Him by what they do; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.

Ils font profession de connaître Dieu, mais ils le renient par leurs oeuvres, étant abominables, rebelles, et incapables d'aucune bonne oeuvre.