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;

In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.

Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.

For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved].

It was a Cretan--one of their own teachers--who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true.

Now this tendency is true. So continue correcting them severely, that they may be healthy in faith,

Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

But let your words be in agreement with true and right teaching:

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.

Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable and gentle, and to show true humility toward all men.

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

and poured him out upon us, too, through Jesus the Messiah our Savior true.

This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;