To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;

For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;

He must hold to the faithful word according to the teaching, so that he may be able both to encourage by sound teaching, and to confute our opponents.

for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre's sake, teach what they ought not to teach.

This testimony is true. So rebuke them sharply,

so as to make them sound in the faith, not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind and submissive to their husbands, in order that God's message be not maligned.

Let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that our opponents may be ashamed because they find no evil things to say about us.

"For God's grace has shined forth bringing salvation to all men

Let them want nothing, and "let our people learn to devote themselves to honest work to supply the necessities of their teachers," so that they be not unfruitful.