The Twentieth Century New Testament
1904 by Ernest Malan and Mary Higgs

Titus Chapter 1

Tit 1:1 (1:1b) FROM Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, charged to strengthen the faith of God's Chosen People, and their knowledge of that Truth which makes for godliness
Tit 1:2 and is based on the hope of Immortal Life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began,
Tit 1:3 and has revealed at his own time in his Message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour.
Tit 1:4 (1:1a) TO Titus, my true Child in our one Faith, (1:4) May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Saviour, bless you and give you peace.
Tit 1:5 My reason for leaving you in Crete was that you might put in order what had been left unsettled, and appoint Officers of the Church in the various towns, as I myself directed you.
Tit 1:6 They are to be men of irreproachable character, who are faithful husbands, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.
Tit 1:7 For a Presiding-Officer, as God's steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making.
Tit 1:8 On the contrary, he should be hospitable, eager for the right, discreet, upright, a man of holy life and capable of self-restraint,
Tit 1:9 who holds doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted Teaching; so that he may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents.
Tit 1:10 There are, indeed, many unruly persons—great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,
Tit 1:11 whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.
Tit 1:12 It was a Cretan—one of their own teachers—who said: 'Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers'; and his statement is true.
Tit 1:13 Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith,
Tit 1:14 and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.
Tit 1:15 Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.
Tit 1:16 They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.