Titum 1
1 Paulus servus Dei, Apostolus autem Iesu Christi secundum fidem electorum Dei, et agnitionem veritatis, quae secundum pietatem est
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,
2 in spem vitae aeternae, quam promisit qui non mentitur, Deus, ante tempora saecularia: (aiōnios g166)
upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, (aiōnios g166)
3 manifestavit autem temporibus suis verbum suum in praedicatione, quae credita est mihi secundum praeceptum Salvatoris nostri Dei:
(and He manifested in proper times His word, ) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,
4 Tito dilecto filio secundum communem fidem, gratia, et pax a Deo Patre, et Christo Iesu Salvatore nostro.
to Titus — true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
5 Huius rei gratia reliqui te Cretae, ut ea, quae desunt, corrigas, et constituas per civitates presbyteros, sicut et ego disposui tibi.
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;
6 Si quis sine crimine est, unius uxoris vir, filios habens fideles, non in accusatione luxuriae, aut non subditos.
if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate —
7 Oportet enim episcopum sine crimine esse, sicut Dei dispensatorem: non superbum, non iracundum, non vinolentum, non percussorem, non turpis lucri cupidum:
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;
8 sed hospitalem, benignum, prudentem, sobrium, iustum, sanctum, continentem,
but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
9 amplectentem eum, qui secundum doctrinam est, fidelem sermonem: ut potens sit exhortari in doctrina sana, et eos, qui contradicunt, arguere.
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;
10 Sunt enim multi etiam inobedientes vaniloqui, et seductores: maxime qui de circumcisione sunt:
for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they of the circumcision —
11 quos oportet redargui: qui universas domos subvertunt, docentes quae non oportet, turpis lucri gratia.
whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12 Dixit quidam ex illis, proprius ipsorum propheta: Cretenses semper mendaces, malae bestiae, ventris pigri.
A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'
13 Testimonium hoc verum est. Quam ob causam increpa illos dure, ut sani sint in fide,
this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
14 non intendentes Iudaicis fabulis, et mandatis hominum, aversantium se a veritate.
not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;
15 Omnia munda mundis: coinquinatis autem, et infidelibus nihil est mundum, sed inquinatae sunt eorum et mens, et conscientia.
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;
16 Confitentur se nosse Deum, factis autem negant: cum sint abominati, et incredibiles, et ad omne opus bonum reprobi.
God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
