¹ Paul, a servant of God—an apostle moreover of Jesus Christ,—according to the faith of the chosen ones of God, and the personal knowledge of the truth that is according to godliness,—

² In hope of life age-abiding; which God, who cannot lie, promised before age-during times,

³ but hath manifested in its fitting seasons, even his word, in the proclamation with which entrusted am I—by injunction of our Saviour God:

⁴ Unto Titus, my true child according to a common faith,—favour and peace, from God [our] Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁵ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that, the things remaining undone, thou mightest completely set in order, and mightest establish, in every city, elders, as, I, with thee arranged:—

⁶ If anyone is unaccusable, a husband of, one wife, having children that believe, who are not charged with riotous excess, nor insubordinate;

⁷ For it is needful that the overseer be—unaccusable, as God’s steward, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not ready to wound, not seeking gain by base means,

⁸ But hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, kind, possessing self-control,

⁹ Holding fast, in the matter of his teaching, the faithful word, that he may be able both to encourage with his healthful instruction, and, the gainsayers, to refute.

¹⁰ For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision,—

¹¹ Whose mouths must needs be stopped, men who are upsetting whole houses, teaching the things which ought not [to be taught] —for the sake of base gain.

¹² Said one from among them, a prophet, of their own!—Cretans! always false, mischievous wild-beasts, idle gluttons:

¹³ This witness, is true,—for which cause, be reproving them sharply, that they may be healthy in their faith,

¹⁴ Not giving heed to Judaical stories and commandments of men who are turning away from the truth:

¹⁵ All things, are pure, unto the pure, but, unto the polluted and faithless, nothing, is pure, but polluted are both their mind and conscience;

¹⁶ God, they confess that they know, but, by their works, they deny him, being, abominable, and obdurate, and, as to any good work, found, worthless.