1 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 is according to piety,
2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who does not lie, did promise before times of 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,
4 to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
5 For this cause left I you in Crete, that the things lacking you may arrange, and may set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to you;
6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast faithful, not under accusation of riotous living reckless lifestyle or insubordinate --
7 for it benefits the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward administrator, not self-pleased arrogant, egocentric, nor irascible hot-tempered, prone to anger, not given to wine, not a striker brawler, not given to filthy lucre base gain;
8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
9 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 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --
11 whose mouth it benefits to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it benefits not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12 A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'
13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;
15 all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast unfaithfulis nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;
16 God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.