Titus 1

¹Paul the servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of the elect of God and knowledge of the truth: which is according to piety,

²into the hope of life everlasting, which he promised that lieth not, God, before the secular times:

³but hath manifested in due times his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the precept of our Saviour God:

⁴to Titus my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

⁵For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest reform the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests by cities, as I also appointed thee:

⁶if any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in the accusation of riot, or not obedient.

⁷For a Bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not angry, not given to wine, no striker, not covetous of filthy lucre:

⁸but given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

⁹embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to reprove them that gainsay it.

¹⁰For there be many disobedient, vain-speakers, and seducers, especially they that are of the Circumcision.

¹¹Who must be controlled. Who subvert whole houses, teaching the things they ought not, for filthy lucre.

¹²One of them said, their own proper prophet, The Cretensians always liars, naughty beasts, slothful bellies.

¹³This testimony is true. For the which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁴not attending to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, averting themselves from the truth.

¹⁵All things are clean to the clean: but to the polluted and to infidels nothing is clean: but polluted are both their mind and conscience.

¹⁶They confess that they know God: but in their works they deny, whereas they be abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.