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1:1 Paul, a servant of God, now an apostle, one sent of Jesus Christ, according to faith in the selection of God, and the acknowledgement of truth, which is according to good reverence. • 2 This acknowledgment of truth is found in the hope of life age-abiding, which God, who cannot lie, promised before age-continuing time [a]. 3 This promise He has now revealed, in His own opportune times or seasons, in His word found inside of the proclamation entrusted to me according to the certain direction of God our Savior. 4 To Titus, my true child according to our shared faith; Grace and peace from Father God and Christ Jesus our Savior.
5 For this reason, I left you in Crete, so that you might set in order the things lacking and might appoint watch-carers, shepherds of the flock, in every town as I directed you. 6 Select [as a watch-carer] one who is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, one who has believing children, and is not under any charge of excessiveness or non-submissiveness. 7 It is necessary for the watch-carer to be irreproachable as the manager and guardian of God’s household; not self-pleasing, not prone to anger, not given to alcohol, not contentious, and not greedy of dishonest gain. 8 Rather select one who is hospitable, a lover of good, one who possesses a sound mind, that is, one who is calm, just, reverential, and temperate or modest, 9 one who holds firmly to the teaching of a faithful word, so that he may be able to encourage with sound teaching as well as to reprove those who contradict or speak against.
10 For there are many also who are unsubmissive, empty speakers of empty words, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision. 11 It is necessary to silence these, for they overturn whole households, teaching things that they ought not for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 One of those empty talkers, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, gluttons, and lazy.” 13 This testimony [of what these empty talkers say] is true, for which cause rebuke them severely, so that they may be sound and healthy inside of the faith. 14 Do not give heed to Jewish fables [b), or to the injunctions or purposes of men who pervert the truth. • 15 To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and without faith, nothing is pure; instead, their mind and their consciousness are both defiled. 16 They speak the same word as if to know God, but they contradict Him in works, being detestable and unwilling to be persuaded, being unapproved for any good work.
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