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,

But after that the kindness and love of our saviour God to man ward appeared,

Warn them, that they submit themselves to rule and power, to obey the officers, that they be ready unto all good works,

For we ourselves also were in times past, unwise, disobedient, deceived, in danger to lusts, and to divers manners of voluptuousness, living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

A man that is given to heresy, after the first and the second admonition; avoid,

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

Foolish questions, and genealogies, and brawlings and strife about the law; avoid, for they are unprofitable, and superfluous.

remembering that he that is such, is perverted, and sinneth, even damned by his own judgement.

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me unto Nicopolis. For I have determined there to winter.

And let ours also learn to excel in good works as far forth as need requireth, that they be not unfruitful.

Bring Zenas the lawyer, and Apollos, on their journey diligently, that nothing be lacking unto them.

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.

that we, once justified by his grace, should be heirs of eternal life, through hope.

that they speak evil of no man, that they be no fighters, but soft, showing all meekness unto all men.

All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all, Amen. {Here ends the Epistle of Saint Paul unto Titus, Written from Nicopolis, a city of Macedonia.}