PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,

for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages,

but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,

to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.

that the aged women, in like manner, be of behavior becoming holiness, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,

sober, pure, fond of home, kind, subject to their husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

presenting yourself as an example of good works in all things, in teaching [exhibiting] integrity, gravity,

not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things.

For the grace of God that pertains to salvation appeared to all men,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all wickedness, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Admonish them to be subject to principalities, to powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work,

but when the goodness and philanthropy of the Saviour our God appeared,

The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men.

and let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary purposes, that they may not be unfruitful.