[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,
[1:2] upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
[1:3] (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,
[1:4] to Titus – true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
[1:5] 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;
[1:6] if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate –
[1:7] 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;
[1:8] but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
[1:9] 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;
[1:10] for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers – especially they of the circumcision –
[1:11] whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
[1:12] A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said – `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!’
[1:13] this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
[1:14] not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;
[1:15] 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;
[1:16] God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him’, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.
[2:1] And thou – be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;
[2:2] aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
[2:3] aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,
[2:4] that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their' husbands, lovers of their’ children,
[2:5] sober, pure, keepers of `their own’ houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
[2:6] The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;
[2:7] concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
[2:8] discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.
[2:9] Servants – to their own masters `are’ to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,
[2:10] not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.
[2:11] For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,
[2:12] teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,
[2:13] waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
[2:14] who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
[2:15] these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!
[3:1] Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,
[3:2] of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome – gentle, showing all meekness to all men,
[3:3] for we were once – also we – thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious – hating one another;
[3:4] and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear
[3:5] (not by works that `are’ in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
[3:6] which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,
[3:7] that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.
[3:8] Stedfast `is’ the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works – who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,
[3:9] and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from – for they are unprofitable and vain.
[3:10] A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,
[3:11] having known that he hath been subverted who `is’ such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.
[3:12] When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis, for there to winter I have determined.
[3:13] Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,
[3:14] and let them learn – ours also – to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
[3:15] Salute thee do all those with me; salute those loving us in faith; the grace `is’ with you all!