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¹ Paul, a slave 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 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before eternal times;³ but in his own seasons manifested his word in the message, with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;⁴ to Titus, my true child after a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

⁵ For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave you charge;

⁶ if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.⁷ For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of monetary gain;⁸ but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.¹⁰ For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for greed of monetary gain's sake.¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.¹³ This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure: but to those that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but by their works they deny him, being disgusting, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.