Titus 1
1 Paul, a servant of God and an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, 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 elect of God, and the knowledge of truth which leads to godliness;
in hope of life eternal, which God, who cannot lie, hath promised before time had a being; (aiōnios g166)
3 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour,
but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God;
4 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah our Saviour.
to Titus, my genuine son after the common faith, be grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and our 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 purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:
6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behaviour.
if there be a man blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not under an accusation or debauchery, or disorderly conduct.
7 For 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 a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;
8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
but the stranger’s host, the good man’s friend, grave, just, holy, temperate;
9 holding 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.
firmly attached to the faithful word, according to the doctrine delivered, that he may be able to exhort with sound instruction and to confute the opposers.
10 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
For there are many disorderly persons vainly talkative, and under a spirit of delusion, especially some of the circumcised;
11 whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
whose mouths ought to be muzzled, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.
12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.
13 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
This testimony is true. For which cause rebuke them with severity, that they may be sound in the faith;
14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
not attending to Jewish fables, and injunctions of men, who have turned away from the truth.
15 To 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 are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled.
16 They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
