1 P aul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

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 according to piety,

2 i n hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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

3 b ut in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

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

4 t o Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

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

5 I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

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

6 i f anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

7 F or the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

8 b ut given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

9 h olding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

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 F or there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

11 w hose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

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

12 O ne of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

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

13 T his testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

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

14 n ot paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

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

15 T o the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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

16 T hey profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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