Tit 1 | ABEn | STEP | Paul, a bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, for belief of the chosen of God, and full knowledge of truth, of the one according to piety;

Titus 1

CHAPTER 1 Paul's Salutation to Titus

1 Paul, a bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, for belief of the chosen of God, and full knowledge of truth, of the one according to piety; 2 unto the hope of life eternal, which [⁴promised ¹the ³incapable of falsehood ²God] before times eternal, 3 but manifested [²times ¹in his own] -- his word by proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to command [²our deliverer ¹of God]. 4 To Titus genuine child according to our common belief. Favor, mercy, peace from God the father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our deliverer.

Elders Appointed

5 For this favor I left you in Crete, that the things missing you should correct, and should place in every city elders, as I set in order for you to do. 6 If anyone is without reproach, [²of one ³wife ¹husband], [³children ¹having ²trustworthy], not with a charge of carnality, or unsubmissiveness. 7 For it is necessary the overseer to be without reproach, as God's manager; not self-willed, not prone to anger, not intemperate in the use of wine, not a brawler, not profiting through vice; 8 but hospitable, friend of good men, discreet, just, sacred, self-controlled, 9 holding to [³according to ⁴the ⁵teaching ¹the trustworthy ²word], that he might be able both to encourage in the [²teaching ¹sound], and [²the ones ³disputing ¹to reprove]. 10 For there are many unsubmissive and vain talkers and mind-deceivers, especially the ones of the circumcision, 11 whom it is necessary to muzzle, who [²entire ³houses ¹upset], teaching what they must not, [²of shameful ³gain ¹for favor]. 12 There said a certain one of them, [²of their own ¹a prophet], Cretans continually are liars, evil wild beasts, [²bellies ¹idle]. 13 This testimony is true; for which reason reprove them severely! that they should be sound in the belief, 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, turning away from the truth. 15 All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to the ones being defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but [⁵are defiled ¹even their ²mind ³and ⁴conscience]. 16 God they acknowledge to know, but in the works they deny, being abominable and resisting persuasion, and [²to ³every ⁵work ⁴good ¹rejected].