Titus 1

CLV^{(i) 1} Paul, a slave of God, yet an apostle of Jesus Christ, in accord with the faith of God's chosen, and a realization of the truth, which accords with devoutness, ² in expectation of life eonian, which God, Who does not lie, promises before times eonian, ³ yet manifests His word in its own eras by heralding, with which I was entrusted, according to the injunction of God, our Saviour, ⁴ to Titus, a genuine child according to the common faith: Grace and peace from God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Saviour." ⁵ On this behalf I left you in Crete, that you should amend what is lacking and constitute elders city by city, as I prescribe to you." ⁶ If anyone is unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not under the accusation of profligacy or insubordinate -" ⁷ for the supervisor must be unimpeachable as an administrator of God, not given to self-gratification, not irritable, no toper, not quarrelsome, not avaricious;" ⁸ but hospitable, fond of that which is good, sane, just, benign, self-controlled;" ⁹ upholding the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able to entreat with sound teaching as well as to expose those who contradict." ¹⁰ For many are insubordinate, vain praters and imposters, especially those of the Circumcision, ¹¹ who must be gagged, who are subverting whole households, teaching what they must not, on behalf of sordid gain." ¹² One of them, their own prophet, said: "Cretans are ever liars, evil wild beasts, idle bellies." ¹³ This testimony is true. For which cause be exposing them severely, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not heeding Jewish myths and precepts of men who are turning from the truth. ¹⁵ All, indeed, is clean to the clean, yet to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean, but their mind as well as conscience is defiled." ¹⁶ They are avowing an acquaintance with God, yet by their acts are denying it, being abominable and stubborn, and disqualified for every good act."