Etheridge - Titus - 1

1:1  PAULOS, a servant of Aloha, and apostle of Jeshu Meshiha, for the faith of the chosen ones of Aloha, and the knowledge of the truth which is in the fear of Aloha;

1:2  unto the hope of eternal life, which Aloha the true counselled before the times of the ages,

1:3  and his word hath revealed in his time by our preaching, which was confided to me by the command of Aloha our Saviour:

1:4  To Titos, my true son in the common faith. Grace and peace from Aloha the Father and from our Lord Jeshu Meshiha our Saviour.

1:5  For this I left thee in Kreta, that those things which were wanting thou mayest rectify, and constitute presbyters in every city as I commanded thee.

1:6  Him who is without blame, and is the husband of one wife, and who hath believing children, who are not vicious nor addicted to intemperance.

1:7  For a presbyter is bound to be without blame, as the steward of Aloha; he shall not be led by the will of self, nor be irascible, nor a transgressor over wine, neither shall his hand be hasty to strike, nor shall he be a lover of sordid gains.

1:8  But he shall be a lover of guests, and a lover of the good, and be chaste, and equitable, and holy, and withholding himself from lusts;

1:9  and careful over the doctrine of the word of faith, that he may be able also to comfort by his teaching the healthy, and to reprove those who are contentious.

1:10  For there are many who are not in subjection, and whose words are vain, and make the minds of men to err, especially those of the circumcision,

1:11  those, whose mouths it behoves to stop. Many houses they destroy, and teach what they ought not, for the sake of filthy gain.

1:12  One of them, a prophet of their own, hath said, The sons of Kreta are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy bellies.

1:13  And true is this testimony. Wherefore reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

1:14  nor cast themselves to the fables of the Jihudoyee, and to the mandates of men who hate the truth.

1:15  For every thing is pure to the pure; but to those who are polluted and unfaithful nothing is pure; but their understanding and their conscience are polluted.

1:16  And they profess to know Aloha, but in their works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and reprobate to every good work.