Titus

Thomson^{(i) 1} Paul, a servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's chosen people, and the acknowledgment of a truth which promoteth piety ² in hope of an everlasting life, which the God of truth promised before the times consisting of ages, ³ and in his own times promulgated as his word, by a proclamation with which I am entrusted, according to the appointment of the saviour our God; ⁴ to Titus, a genuine son according to the common faith, be favour, mercy, peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. ⁵ I left thee in Crete for this purpose that thou mightest regulate what were wanting, and appoint elders in every city as I ordered thee. ⁶ If there be any one blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, who are not accused of riot, nor ungovernable. ⁷ For the overseer ought to be blameless as God's steward, not self willed, not passionate, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of sordid gain; ⁸ but a lover of hospitality, a lover of goodness, sober, just, holy, temperate, ⁹ adhering to the faithful word, as he hath been taught, that he may be able to exhort with sound doctrine, and convince them who oppose it. ¹⁰ For there are many who are disorderly, vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision, ¹¹ who ought to be curbed, who subvert whole houses teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain. ¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own hath said, "False Cretans! savage beasts! to gluttony and sloth devote!" ¹³ This is a true testimony; on this account rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men who pervert the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure, all things are indeed pure but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Their mind and conscience are polluted: ¹⁶ they make a profession of knowing God, but with their works they deny him; being abominable, and disobedient, and lost to every good work.