1 P aul, 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,

¶ Paul, slave of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness;

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

for the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the times of the ages

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

and has manifested in due times. It is his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

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

to Titus, true son in the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus, the Christ, our Saviour.

5 F or 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;

¶ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou should correct that which is lacking and set in place elders in every city, as I had commanded thee:

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

¶ He who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who can not be accused of dissoluteness, nor insubordinate.

7 f or 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;

For the bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God; not arrogant, not quick to anger, not given to wine, not hurtful, not greedy of dishonest gain,

8 b ut a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, temperate, just, holy, gentle,

9 h olding -- 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;

holding fast the doctrine according to the faithful word, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

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

For there are many insubordinate and vain talkers and deceivers of souls, especially those of the circumcision,

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

whose mouths it is expedient to stop, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain.

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

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.

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

This witness is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

14 n ot giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

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

For unto the pure all things are pure, but unto those that are defiled and unfaithful, nothing is pure, but even their soul and conscience is defiled.

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

They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable and rebellious and reprobate unto every good work.