Titus 1

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Paul’s Greeting to Titus

¹Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

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

²in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.^a

²upon the hope of eternal life, which God, who is without falsehood, promised before times eternal

³In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.

³and revealed in His own seasons in His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior.

⁴To Titus, my true child in our common faith:

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

⁴To Titus, my genuine child according to a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

Appointing Elders on Crete

⁵The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

⁵For the sake of this I left you in Crete, that you might set in order the things lacking and might appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

⁶An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife,^a having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

⁶if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not under accusation of debauchery, or insubordinate.

⁷As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.

⁷For it is necessary for the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward—not self-pleasing, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy for shameful gain,

⁸Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

⁸but hospitable, a lover of good, sound-minded, righteous, holy, and self-controlled,

⁹He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.

⁹holding to the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in sound teaching and to convict those contradicting it.

Correcting False Teachers

¹⁰For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,

¹⁰For there are also many insubordinate ones, empty talkers, and mind-deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

¹¹who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

¹¹whom it is necessary to silence, who overturn whole households, teaching things that it is necessary not to teach, for the sake of shameful gain.

¹²As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”^a

¹²One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

¹³This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith

¹³This testimony is true, through which cause you are to rebuke them severely, so that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁴and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

¹⁴not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

¹⁵To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

¹⁵All things are pure to the pure; but to those being defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. But both their mind and conscience are defiled.

¹⁶They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

¹⁶They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and unfit for any good work.