which is after godliness upon the hope of eternal life; which life God, that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began:

but hath opened his word at the time appointed, through preaching; which preaching is committed unto me, by the commandment of God our saviour.

For this cause left I thee in Crete: that thou shouldest perform that which was lacking and shouldest ordain elders in every city as I appointed thee.

If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

whose mouths must be stopped, which pervert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, because of filthy lucre.

One being of themselves, which was a poet of their own said, "The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and slow bellies."

But speak thou that which becometh wholesome learning:

and with the wholesome word which cannot be rebuked, that he which withstandeth may be ashamed, having no thing in you that he may dispraise.

which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

not of the deeds of righteousness which we wrought, but of his mercy, he saved us, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the holy ghost,

which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our saviour;

This is a true saying. Of these things I would thou shouldest certify, that they which believe God, might be diligent to go forward in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.