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| [1]Paul, 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 [is] according to piety, |
[1]PAUL, a servant of God, and a legate of Jesus the Messiah; according to the faith of the elect of God, and the knowledge of the truth which is in the fear of God, |
| [2]upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages, |
[2]concerning the hope of eternal life, which the veracious God promised before the times of the world; |
| [3](and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour, |
[3]and in due time he hath manifested his word, by means of our announcement, which was confided to me by the command of God our Life-giver; |
| [4]to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour! |
[4]to Titus, a real son after the common faith: Grace and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah, our Life-giver. |
| [5]For 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; |
[5]For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou mightest regulate the things deficient, and establish elders in every city, as I directed thee: |
| [6]if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate -- |
[6]him who is blameless, who is the husband of one wife, and hath believing children, who are no revellers, nor ungovernable in sensuality. |
| [7]for 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; |
[7]For an elder ought to be blameless, as the steward of God; and not be self-willed, nor irascible, nor excessive in wine, nor with hands swift to strike, nor a lover of base gains. |
| [8]but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled, |
[8]But he should be a lover of strangers, and a lover of good [deeds], and be sober, upright, kind-hearted, and restraining himself from evil passions; |
| [9]holding -- 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; |
[9]and studious of the doctrine of the word of faith, that he may be able by his wholesome teaching both to console, and to rebuke them that are contentious. |
| [10]for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision -- |
[10]For many are unsubmissive, and their discourses vain; and they mislead the minds of people, especially such as are of the circumcision. |
| [11]whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake. |
[11]The mouth of these ought to be stopped: they corrupt many families; and they teach what they ought not, for the sake of base gains. |
| [12]A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!' |
[12]One of them, a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always mendacious, evil beasts, idle bellies. |
| [13]this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, |
[13]And this testimony is true. Therefore chide them sharply; that they may be sound in the faith, |
| [14]not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth; |
[14]and may not throw themselves into Jewish fables, and into the precepts of men who hate the truth. |
| [15]all things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast [is] nothing pure, but of them defiled [are] even the mind and the conscience; |
[15]For to the pure, every thing is pure; but to them who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their understanding is defiled, and their conscience. |
| [16]God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved. |
[16]And they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him; and they are odious, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobates. |