Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

[It is being sent] to Titus, my true son, [who shares] in a common faith. [May you have] unearned favor and peace [which come] from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

For this cause left I thee in Crete: that thou shouldest perform that which was lacking and shouldest ordain elders in every city as I appointed thee.

If any be faultless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.

One being of themselves, which was a poet of their own said, "The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and slow bellies."

This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

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.

not taking anything away, shewing, all good faith, - that, the instruction which is of our Saviour God, they may adorn in all things.

For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared,

which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of rebirth and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

This is a true saying. Of these things I would thou shouldest certify, that they which believe God, might be diligent to go forward in good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.