For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.

This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

But do thou speak the things that become sound teaching;

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children,

discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:

not robbing their masters, but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which is of our Saviour God in all things.

teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

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

that, having been justified by his grace, we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

The word is faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

knowing that such a one is perverted, and sins, being self-condemned.

Zenas the lawyer and Apollos set forward diligently on their way, that nothing may be lacking to them;

and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works for necessary wants, that they may not be unfruitful.