namely, if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, and his children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild or rebellious.

holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

Said one from among them, a prophet, of their own! - Cretans! always false, mischievous wild-beasts, idle gluttons:

[And] this testimony is true. [So], for this reason you should rebuke them severely, so that they will be sound in the faith,

and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who reject the truth.

so that they may encourage the young women to tenderly love their husbands and their children,

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

and not to steal, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in everything they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.

so that we would be justified [made free of the guilt of sin] by His [compassionate, undeserved] grace, and that we would be [acknowledged as acceptable to Him and] made heirs of eternal life [actually experiencing it] according to our hope (His guarantee).

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

After a first and second admonition, have nothing further to do with any one who will not be taught;

When I will send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus. Be diligence to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to winter there.

Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, so that they will lack nothing.

And our people must also learn to devote themselves to good works for cases of urgent need, so that they will not be unfruitful.