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,⋮

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

3 (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge 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!⋮

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;⋮

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

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;⋮

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

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;⋮

10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they 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.⋮

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

13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, 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;⋮

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;⋮

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