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1:1  6 He showeth what kind of men ought to be chosen Ministers:  10 how vain babblers’ mouths should be stopped: 12 and through this occasion he toucheth the nature of the Cretans, 14 and the Jews, who put boldness in outward things. 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 unto godliness.
1:2  Unto the hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie, hath promised before the world began:
1:3  But hath made his word manifest in due time through the preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior:
1:4  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.
1:5  For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest continue to redress the things that remain, and shouldest ordain Elders in every city as I ap-pointed thee.
1:6  If any be unreproveable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.
1:7  For a Bishop must be unreproveable, as God’s steward, not froward, not angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre,
1:8  But harberous, one that loveth goodness, wise, righteous, holy, temperate,
1:9  Holding fast that faithful word according to doctrine, that he also may be able to exhort with wholesome doctrine, and convince them that say against it.
1:10  For there are many disobedient and vain talkers and deceivers of minds, chiefly they of the Circumcision,
1:11  Whose mouths must be stopped, which subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
1:12  One of themselves, even one of their own Prophets said, The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
1:13  This witness is true: wherefore convince them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
1:14  And not taking heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, that turn away from the truth.
1:15  Unto the pure are all things pure, but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their minds and consciences are defiled.
1:16  They profess that they know God, but by works they deny him, and are abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.