Titus 1

Revised Geneva Translation

1 Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s Elect and the acknowledging of the Truth which is according to godliness;

² in the hope of eternal life - which God, Who cannot lie, has promised since before the world began.

³ But He has revealed His Word in due time through preaching, which is committed to me according to the Commandment of God our Savior,

⁴ To Titus, my natural son according to the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

⁵ For this reason I left you in Crete, so that you would continue to organize the things which remain, and would ordain elders in every city, as I directed you

⁶ (if any are blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who are not accused of wastefulness or disobedient).

⁷ For an overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not willful, not angry, not given to wine, not a brawler, not greedy;

⁸ but one who loves strangers and goodness, is wise, righteous, holy, temperate,

⁹ holding fast the faithful Word according to doctrine, so that he may also be able to encourage with sound doctrine and convince those who speak against it.

¹⁰ For there are many disobedient and empty talkers, and deceivers of minds (mainly those of the circumcision)

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; who subvert whole houses, teaching things they ought not for the sake of dishonest gain.

¹² One of them (one of their own Prophets) said, “The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

¹³ This witness is true! Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith

¹⁴ and not holding onto Jewish fables and commandments of men which turn away from the Truth.

¹⁵ To the pure, are all things pure. But, to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. But even their minds and consciences are defiled.

¹⁶ They profess that they know God, but by works they deny Him and are abominable and disobedient and worthless as to every good work.