The New Testament
Translated from the Original Greek
1858 by Leicester Sawyer

Titus Chapter 1

Tit 1:1 PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,
Tit 1:2 for the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie announced before eternal ages,
Tit 1:3 but manifested his word in the times which were suitable for it by the preaching with which I was intrusted, according to the command of our Saviour God,
Tit 1:4 to Titus my faithful son in the common faith; grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
Tit 1:5 For this cause I left you in Crete, that you might regulate things which are deficient, and appoint elders in every city, as I charged you,
Tit 1:6 if any one is blameless, a husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of intemperance or of insubordination.
Tit 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,
Tit 1:8 but a lover of hospitality, kind, sober, just, holy, self-denying,
Tit 1:9 holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.
Tit 1:10 For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Tit 1:11 whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not.
Tit 1:12 A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.
Tit 1:13 This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
Tit 1:14 not attending to Jewish myths, and commandments of men who subvert the truth.
Tit 1:15 To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their mind and conscience are defiled.
Tit 1:16 They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.