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Titus
Darby Bible Translation → New International Version

Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to [the] faith of God's elect, and knowledge of [the] truth which [is] according to piety;

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness —

in [the] hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time,

but has manifested in its own due season his word, in [the] proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to [the] commandment of our Saviour God;

and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior,

to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace from God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained [unordered], and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appointa elders in every town, as I directed you.

if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believeb and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

For the overseer must be free from all charge [against him] as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless — not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.

clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.

He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.

For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the] circumcision,

For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.

who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the sake of base gain.

They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach — and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”c

This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith

not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.

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

All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

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