Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,

It has been said by one of themselves, by a prophet of their own, that ??"Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons."

That is a true statement. So deal sharply with them, to have them sound in the faith

they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.

and he saved us, not for anything we had done but from his own pity for us, by the water that means regeneration and renewal under the holy Spirit

that we might be justified by his grace and become heirs to the hope of life eternal."

It is a sure saying. I want you to insist on this, that those who have faith in God must profess honest occupations. Such counsels are right and good for men.

you may be sure a man like that is perverted; he is sinning and he knows it.

Give a hearty send-off to Zenas the jurist and Apollos; see that they want for nothing.