Titus 1

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,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledgement of the truth, which is according to godliness;

2 upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, (aiōnios g166)

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can not lie, promised be fore the times of the ages, (aiōnios g166)

3 (and He manifested in proper times His word, ) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

but he has in his own times manifested his word by preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior;

4 to Titus — true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

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

5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

I left you in Crete for this purpose, that you might set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I commanded you:

6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate —

if any one is blameless, the husband of one wife, if he has faithful children that are not accused of riotous living, or disobedient.

7 for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

For the bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not fond of wine, not quarrelsome, not one who makes money by base means;

8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate,

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;

holding fast the sure word as it is taught, that he may be able, by sound teaching, both to exhort and to convince the opposers.

10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they of the circumcision —

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

11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

whose mouths must be stopped: these subvert whole houses by teaching, for the sake of base gain, things which they ought not to teach.

12 A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said: The Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

This testimony is true; wherefore rebuke them severely, 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;

and not give heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men that turn away from the truth.

15 all things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast [is] nothing pure, but of them defiled [are] even the mind and the conscience;

To the pure, all things are pure: but to the denied and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and their conscience are denied.

16 God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him, being detestable and disobedient, and, as it respects every good work, rejected.