PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the knowledge of truth which leads to godliness;

in hope of life eternal, which God, who cannot lie, hath promised before time had a being;

but hath manifested in his own appointed season his word by the preaching, with which I have been entrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God;

For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:

whose mouths ought to be muzzled, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

This testimony is true. For which cause rebuke them with severity, that they may be sound in the faith;

BUT speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men,

not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and by renovation of the Holy Spirit;

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