ABP - Titus - 1

1:1  Paul, a bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, for belief of the chosen of God, and full knowledge of truth, of the one according to piety;

1:2  unto the hope of life eternal, which [4promised 1the 3incapable of falsehood 2God] before times eternal,

1:3  but manifested [2times 1in his own] -- his word by proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to command [2our deliverer 1of God].

1:4  To Titus genuine child according to our common belief. Favor, mercy, peace from God the father, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our deliverer.

1:5  For this favor I left you in Crete, that the things missing you should correct, and should place in every city elders, as I set in order for you to do.

1:6  If anyone is without reproach, [2of one 3wife 1husband], [3children 1having 2trustworthy], not with a charge of carnality, or unsubmissiveness.

1:7  For it is necessary the overseer to be without reproach, as God's manager; not self-willed, not prone to anger, not intemperate in the use of wine, not a brawler, not profiting through vice;

1:8  but hospitable, friend of good men, discreet, just, sacred, self-controlled,

1:9  holding to [3according to 4the 5teaching 1the trustworthy 2word], that he might be able both to encourage in the [2teaching 1sound], and [2the ones 3disputing 1to reprove].

1:10  For there are many unsubmissive and vain talkers and mind-deceivers, especially the ones of the circumcision,

1:11  whom it is necessary to muzzle, who [2entire 3houses 1upset], teaching what they must not, [2of shameful 3gain 1for favor].

1:12  There said a certain one of them, [2of their own 1a prophet], Cretans continually are liars, evil wild beasts, [2bellies 1idle].

1:13  This testimony is true; for which reason reprove them severely! that they should be sound in the belief,

1:14  not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, turning away from the truth.

1:15  All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to the ones being defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but [5are defiled 1even their 2mind 3and 4conscience].

1:16  God they acknowledge to know, but in the works they deny, being abominable and resisting persuasion, and [2to 3every 5work 4good 1rejected].