Titus

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

But has in due times manifested His word through preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

To Titus, my own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are wanting and appoint elders in every city, as I had appointed you:

If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

For an overseer must be blameless as the steward of God, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to greedy gain;

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good people, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision:

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of greedy gain.

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, "The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."

This witness is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of people who turn from the truth.

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

They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.