Paul, a bondservant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ for building up the faith of God's own people and spreading a full knowledge of the truths of religion,

in hope of the Life of the Ages which God, who is never false to His word, promised before the commencement of the Ages.

And at the appointed time He clearly made known His Message in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour:

To Titus my own true child in our common faith. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

For, as God's steward, a minister must be of blameless life, not over-fond of having his own way, not a man of a passionate temper nor a hard drinker, not given to blows nor greedy of gain,

They profess to know God; but in their actions they disown Him, and are detestable and disobedient men, and for any good work are utterly useless.

but manifesting perfect fidelity and kind feeling, in order to bring honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things.

For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,

in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,

This is a faithful saying, and on these various points I would have you insist strenuously, in order that those who have their faith fixed on God may be careful to set an example of good actions. For these are not only good in themselves, but are also useful to mankind.

And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives.