Titus 1

1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Christ Jesus, for the faith of God's elect, 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;

2 in hope of everlasting life, which God, who cannot lie, promised from the most ancient times, (aiōnios g166)

in hope of life eternal, which God, who cannot lie, hath promised before time had a being; (aiōnios g166)

3 but in his own seasons manifested his word through the preaching with which I was intrusted by 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, true child after the common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus 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 For this cause I left thee behind in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed thee;

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 any one is without reproach, the husband of one wife, having believing children, that are not accused of dissoluteness, or unruly.

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 a bishop must be without reproach, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base 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 hospitable, a lover of what is good, discreet, just, holy, temperate,

but the stranger’s host, the good man’s friend, grave, just, holy, temperate;

9 holding fast the sure word according to what he was taught, that he may be able by sound teaching both to exhort, and to refute the gainsayers.

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 many unruly vain talkers and deceivers, especially they 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, since they overturn whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

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 themselves, even a prophet of their own, said: “The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful 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 which cause rebuke 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 giving heed 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 the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and 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 works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and for every good work reprobate.

They profess to know God; but in works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.