Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety,

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.