The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to TITUS
The Modern Young's Literal Translation© 2005



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CHAPTER 1

1  Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that [is] according to piety,
2  upon hope of life age-during, which God, who does not lie, did promise before times of ages,
3  (and He made known His word in proper times,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Savior,
4  to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior!
5  I left you in Crete for this cause, that you may arrange the things lacking, and may set down elders in every city, as I did appoint to you;
6  if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having steadfast children, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --
7  for it is necessary for the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8  but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
9  holding -- according to the teaching -- to the steadfast word, that he may be able to exhort in the sound teaching also, and to convict the gainsayers;
10  for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --
11  whose mouth it is necessary to stop, who do overturn whole households, teaching things that are not necessary, for filthy lucre's sake.
12  A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'
13  this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
14  not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;
15  all things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unsteadfast nothing [is] pure, but even the mind and the conscience [are] defiled of them;
16  they profess to know God, and they deny [Him] in the works, being abominable, and disobedient, and disapproved unto every good work.


CHAPTER 2

1  And you -- be speaking what does become the sound teaching;
2  aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
3  aged women, in like manner, in deportment as does become sacred persons, not false accusers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things,
4  that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of [their] husbands, lovers of [their] children,
5  sober, pure, keepers of [their own] houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be spoken evil of.
6  Be exhorting the younger men, in like manner, to be sober-minded;
7  yourself showing a pattern of good works concerning all things; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
8  discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.
9  Servants - [are] to be subject to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not gainsaying,
10  not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in all things.
11  For the saving grace of God was made known to all men,
12  teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, we may live in the present age soberly and righteously and piously,
13  waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
14  who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify a peculiar people to himself, zealous of good works;
15  be speaking these things, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise you!


CHAPTER 3

1  Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, to be ready unto every good work,
2  to speak evil of no one, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,
3  for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and varied pleasures, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
4  and when the kindness and the love of God our Savior did appear to men
5  (not by works that [are] in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,
6  which He poured richly upon us, through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7  that having been declared righteous by His grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of life age-during.
8  Steadfast [is] the word; and concerning these things I counsel you to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,
9  and foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about law, stand away from -- for they are unprofitable and vain.
10  A sectarian man, be rejecting after a first and second admonition,
11  having known that he who [is] such has been subverted, and does sin, being self-condemned.
12  When I shall send Artemas unto you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to Nicopolis unto me, for I have determined to winter there.
13  Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos diligently on their way, that nothing may be lacking to them,
14  and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.
15  All those with me do salute you; salute those loving us in faith; the grace [is] with you all!



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