1:1 Paul, a slave of God and an emissary of Messiah Yeshua, for the faith of God’s chosen and the knowledge of truth that is in keeping with godliness,
1:2 based on the hope of eternal life. God—who cannot lie—promised this before the beginning of time.
1:3 But in His own time He made His message known, through a proclamation with which I was entrusted, by the command of God our Savior.
1:4 To Titus, a true child of our common faith: Grace and shalom from God the Father and Messiah Yeshua, our Savior!
1:5 The reason I left you in Crete was so that you would set in order the things that remain and appoint elders in every city as I directed you—
1:6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children of faith with no charge of wild living or rebellion.
1:7 For the overseer must be blameless as God’s administrator—not arrogant, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain.
1:8 Rather he must be hospitable, loving what is good, self-controlled, upright, devout, disciplined.
1:9 He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message in keeping with the teaching, so he can both encourage by instruction that is sound and convict those who speak against it.
1:10 For there are many who are rebellious, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from the circumcision.
1:11 They must be silenced—those who upset entire households by teaching what they should not, for the sake of dishonest gain.
1:12 One of them, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
1:13 This testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, so they might be sound in the faith,
1:14 not paying attention to Judaic myths and commands of men who turn away from the truth.
1:15 To the pure all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Both their mind and conscience are defiled.
1:16 They claim to know God but their deeds deny Him. They are despicable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
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