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,

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.

To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience are defiled.

The word is true, and I wish you to insist strongly concerning these things, that those who have believed in God may be careful to maintain good works. For these things are honorable and useful to men.

But foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes and contentions about the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

All who are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in the faith. The grace be with you all.