Godbey - Titus - 1

1:1  Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the perfect knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

1:2  in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times,

1:3  and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

1:4  to Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour.

1:5  Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you;

1:6  if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.

1:7  For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

1:8  but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate;

1:9  holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers.

1:10  For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision,

1:11  whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain.

1:12  A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs.

1:13  This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith,

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

1:15  To the pure all things are pure: but to the corrupted and unbelieving there is nothing pure; yea, their mind and their conscience are polluted.

1:16  They profess to know God, but deny him by their works, being abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate unto every good work.