Titus 1:1-13 ▼

1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the chosen ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that [is] according to piety,

2 on hope of continuous life, which God, who does not lie, promised before times of ages

3 (and He revealed His word in [His] own times), in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge 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 Savior!

5 For this cause I left you in Crete, that you may arrange the things lacking, and may set elders down in every city, as I appointed to you,

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

7 for it is required of the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor prone to anger, not given to wine, not an abuser, not given to shameful gain,

8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of [the] good, sober-minded, righteous, holy, self-controlled,

9 holding—according to the teaching—to the steadfast word, that he may also be able to exhort in the sound teaching, and to convict the deniers;

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

11 whose mouths must be covered, who overturn whole households, teaching what things it should not, for [the] sake of shameful gain.

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,