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1:1  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;
1:2  in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,
1:3  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;
1:4  to Titus, my own child according to the faith common to us: Grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
1:5  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:
1:6  if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
1:7  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;
1:8  but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,
1:9  clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught, that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers.
1:10  For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of the circumcision,
1:11  who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.
1:12  One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.
1:13  This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
1:14  not turning their minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
1:15  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.
1:16  They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.