Titus 1
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness;
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
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began; (aiōnios g166)
and is based on the hope of Immortal Life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began, (aiōnios g166)
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
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.
4 To Titus, [my] own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
To Titus, my true Child in our one Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Saviour, bless you and give you peace.
5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
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.
6 If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or disorderly.
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.
7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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.
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right, discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint,
9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
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.
10 For there are many disorderly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
There are, indeed, many unruly persons — great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,
11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.
whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.
12 One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
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.
13 This testimony is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith,
14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn from the truth.
and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.
15 To the pure all things [are] pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
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.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.
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.
