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

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

For a bishop must be faultless, as it becometh the minister of God; not stubborn, not angry, no drunkard, no fighter, not given to filthy lucre:

and such as cleaveth unto the true word of doctrine, that he may be able to exhort with wholesome learning, and to improve them that say against it.

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

This witness is true, wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

That the elder men be sober, honest, discreet, sound in the faith, in love and in patience.

And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,

to be of discreet, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.

Young men likewise exhort that they be sober minded.

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.

The servants exhort to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please in all things, not answering again,

neither be pickers, but that they show all good faithfulness, that they may do worship to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

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

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

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,

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.}