PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,

for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages,

but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,

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,

Speak things which become sound teaching.

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

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