For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you,

holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.

This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

That the aged men be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

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

that they may instruct the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

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

sound argument not to be condemned, that the adversary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of us.

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,

teaching us, that denying impiety and worldly desires we should live soberly, and righteously, and piously in the present life,

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

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

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.

A man that is a heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject,

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

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