1 Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to [the] faith of God’s elect, and knowledge of [the] truth which [is] according to piety; DBY — Titus 1:1
2 in [the] hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time, DBY — Titus 1:2
3 but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the] proclamation with which *I* have been entrusted, according to [the] commandment of our Saviour God; DBY — Titus 1:3
4 to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour. DBY — Titus 1:4
5 For 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: DBY — Titus 1:5
6 if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly. DBY — Titus 1:6
7 For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him] as God’s steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means; DBY — Titus 1:7
8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate, DBY — Titus 1:8
9 clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers. DBY — Titus 1:9
10 For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people’s minds, specially those of [the] circumcision, DBY — Titus 1:10
11 who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the sake of base gain. DBY — Titus 1:11
12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons. DBY — Titus 1:12
13 This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith, DBY — Titus 1:13
14 not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth. DBY — Titus 1:14
15 All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. DBY — Titus 1:15
16 They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work. DBY — Titus 1:16