Titus 3:1-11

New Matthew Bible

Of obedience to persons in authority. Of gentleness to all people. He warns Titus to beware of foolish and unprofitable questions.

3 Warn the people to submit themselves to rule and authority, to obey the officials, to be ready for all good works, ² to speak evil of no one, and not to be fighters, but soft, showing all gentleness to all people. ³ For we ourselves also were in times past unwise: disobedient, deceived; captive to desires, lusts, and diverse kinds of sensuality; living in maliciousness and envy, full of hate, hating one another.

⁴ But after the kindness and love of our Saviour God toward man appeared, ⁵ he saved us – not for the deeds of righteousness that we have done, but of his mercy, by the fountain of the new birth, and with the renewing of the Holy Spirit, ⁶ which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour, ⁷ so that we, once justified by his grace, should be heirs of eternal life through hope.  ⁸ This is a true saying.

These things I want you to affirm constantly, so that those who believe God may be diligent to go forward in good works. These things are good and profitable to people. ⁹ Foolish questions and genealogies, and brawling and strife about the law, avoid. For they are unprofitable and superfluous.

¹⁰ A person who is given to heresy, after the first and the second admonition, avoid, ¹¹ remembering that such a one has been perverted, and sins, even condemned by his own judgment.