Titus 1
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness:
Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the perfect knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world: (aiōnios g166)
in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times, (aiōnios g166)
3 But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:
and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
4 To Titus my beloved son, according to the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Saviour.
to Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:
Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you;
6 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.
7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:
For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;
8 But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:
but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate;
9 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers.
holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers.
10 For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:
For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision,
11 Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.
12 One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.
A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs.
13 This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,
14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn themselves away from the truth.
not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
To the pure all things are pure: but to the corrupted and unbelieving there is nothing pure; yea, their mind and their conscience are polluted.
16 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him; being abominable, and incredulous, and to every good work reprobate.
They profess to know God, but deny him by their works, being abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate unto every good work.
