Titus 1 — DBY
1Verse 1Paul, 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;Verse 2in [the] hope of eternal life, which°God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,Verse 3but 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;Verse 4to Titus, my own child according to [the] faith common [to us]: Grace and peace from°God [the] Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.Verse 5For 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:Verse 6if any one be free from all charge [against him], husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.Verse 7For 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;Verse 8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,Verse 9clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.Verse 10For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the] circumcision,Verse 11who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the sake of base gain.Verse 12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.Verse 13This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,Verse 14not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.Verse 15All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.Verse 16They profess to know°God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.