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¹ Paul a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in things concerning the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is after godliness,² In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began;³ And he hath in due time manifested his word, thro' the preaching wherewith I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour:⁴ To Titus my own son after the common faith, grace, mercy, peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

⁵ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest set in order the things which remain, and ordain elders in every city, as I appointed thee:

⁶ If a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of luxury or unruly.⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not passionate, not given to wine, no striker, not desirous of filthy gain:⁸ But a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, prudent, just, holy, temperate, Holding fast the faithful word,⁹ as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.¹⁰ For there are many unruly vain-talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision,¹¹ Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of filthy gain.¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, evil wild-beasts, lazy gluttons.¹³ This witness is true; therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;¹⁴ Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.¹⁵ To the clean all things are clean; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; but both their understanding and conscience are defiled.¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and void of judgment as to every good work.