Titus 1

1 From Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, charged to strengthen the faith of God’s Chosen People, and their knowledge of that Truth which makes for godliness

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

2 and is based on the hope of Immortal Life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began, (aiōnios g166)

in hope of the consummate (aiōnios g166) life, which God, who cannnot lie, promised before time began;

3 and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

4 To Titus, my true Child in our one Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Saviour, bless you and give you peace.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

5 My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you.

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—

6 They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

7 For a Presiding-Officer, as God’s steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making.

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;

8 On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right, discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint,

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

9 who holds doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted Teaching; so that he may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents.

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.

10 There are, indeed, many unruly persons — great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

11 whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

12 It was a Cretan — one of their own teachers — who said: ‘Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers’; and his statement is true.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

13 Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith,

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

14 and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

15 Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.

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.

16 They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.