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 acknowledgment 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 before 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,

who has now manifested his word, at the proper season, by the proclamation with which I am intrusted, according to the appointment 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!

to Titus, my genuine son, according to the common faith: Favor, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour.

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;

For this purpose, I left you in Crete, that you might set in order the things left unfinished, and to ordain seniors 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 be without blame, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not accused of riotous living, nor unruly.

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 a bishop should be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not a striker, not one who makes gain by base methods;

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

but hospitable; a lover of good men, prudent, 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 true doctrine, as he has been taught; that he may be able, by wholesome teaching, both to exhort and to confute the gain-sayers.

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

For there are many unruly and foolish talked 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; who subvert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.

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 bodies."

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

This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be healthy in the faith--

14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

not giving heed to Jewish fables, and precepts of men who pervert 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 meats are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure; for both their understanding and conscience are polluted.

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 to know God; but by works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.