Titus 1

1Paul, 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 <FI>is<Fi> according to piety,

1Paul, bondman ofGod, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to [the] faith ofGod's elect, and knowledge of [the] truth which [is] according to piety;

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

2in [the] hope of eternal life, whichGod, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,

3(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

3but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the] proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to [the] commandment of our SaviourGod;

4to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

4to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace fromGod [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

5For 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;

5For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained [unordered], and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

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

6if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

7for 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;

7For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him] asGod's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

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

8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

9holding--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;

9clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.

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

10For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the] circumcision,

11whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

11who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the sake of base gain.

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

12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

13this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

13This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

14not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

14not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

15all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

15All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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

16They profess to knowGod, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.