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[1]Paul a servant of God, and an Apostle of JESUS CHRIST, according to the faith of God's elect and the knowledge of the truth, which is according to godliness,
[2]Under the hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began:
[3]But hath made his word manifest in due time through the preaching, which is committed unto me, according to the commandment of God our Savior:
[4]To Titus my natural son according to the common faith, Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
[5]For this cause left I thee in Creta, that thou shouldest continue to redress the things that remain, and should ordain Elders in every city, as I appointed thee,
[6]If any be unreprovable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.
[7]For a Bishop must be unreprovable, as God's steward, not froward, not angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre,
[8]But harborous, one that loveth goodness, wise, righteous, holy, temperate,
[9]Holding fast the faithful word according to doctrine, that he also may be able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and improve them that say against it.
[10]For there are many disobedient and vain talkers and deceivers of minds, chiefly they of the Circumcision,
[11]Whose mouths must be stopped, which subvert whole houses, teaching things, which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
[12]One of themselves, even one of their own prophets said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
[13]This witness is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
[14]And not taking heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
[15]Unto the pure are all things pure, but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their minds and consciences are defiled.
[16]They profess that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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