 1:1  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;
 1:2  In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie,
promised before the world began;
 1:3  But hath in due times manifested his word through
preaching, which is committed unto me according to the
commandment of God our Saviour;
 1:4  To Titus, [mine] own son after the common faith: Grace,
mercy, [and] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ our Saviour.
 1:5  For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest
set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in
every city, as I had appointed thee:
 1:6  If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having
faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
 1:7  For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God;
not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker,
not given to filthy lucre;
 1:8  But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober,
just, holy, temperate;
 1:9  Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,
that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to
convince the gainsayers.
 1:10  For there are many unruly and vain talkers and
deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
 1:11  Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses,
teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
 1:12  One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said,
The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
 1:13  This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply,
that they may be sound in the faith;
 1:14  Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of
men, that turn from the truth.
 1:15  Unto the pure all things [are] pure: but unto them that
are defiled and unbelieving [is] nothing pure; but even their
mind and conscience is defiled.
 1:16  They profess that they know God; but in works they deny
[him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good
work reprobate.
