GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:56urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:56Paul , bondman of God , and apostle of Jesus Christ according to [ the ] faith of God's elect , and knowledge of [ the ] truth which [ is ] according to piety ; in [ the ] hope of eternal life , which God , who cannot lie , promised before the ages of time , but has manifested in its own due season his word , in [ the ] proclamation with which * I * have been entrusted , according to [ the ] commandment of our Saviour God ; to Titus , my own child according to [ the ] faith common [ to us ] : Grace and peace from God [ the ] Father , and Christ Jesus our Saviour . For this cause I left thee in Crete , that thou mightest go on to set right what remained [ unordered ] , and establish elders in each city , as * I * had ordered thee : if any one be free from all charge [ against him ] , husband of one wife , having believing children not accused of excess or unruly . For the overseer must be free from all charge [ against him ] as God's steward ; not headstrong , not passionate , not disorderly through wine , not a striker , not seeking gain by base means ; but hospitable , a lover of goodness , discreet , just , pious , temperate , clinging to the faithful word according to the doctrine taught , that he may be able both to encourage with sound teaching and refute gainsayers . For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds , specially those of [ the ] circumcision , who must have their mouths stopped , who subvert whole houses , teaching things which ought not [ to be taught ] for the sake of base gain . One of themselves , a prophet of their own , has said , Cretans are always liars , evil wild beasts , lazy gluttons . This testimony is true ; for which cause rebuke them severely , that they may be sound in the faith , not turning [ their ] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth . All things [ are ] pure to the pure ; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [ is ] pure ; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled . They profess to know God , but in works deny [ him ] , being abominable , and disobedient , and found worthless as to every good work . But do * thou * speak the things that become sound teaching ; that the elder men be sober , grave , discreet , sound in faith , in love , in patience ; that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things , not slanderers , not enslaved to much wine , teachers of what is right ; that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [ their ] husbands , to be attached to [ their ] children , discreet , chaste , diligent in home work , good , subject to their own husbands , that the word of God may not be evil spoken of . The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet : in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works ; in teaching uncorruptedness , gravity , a sound word , not to be condemned ; that he who is opposed may be ashamed , having no evil thing to say about us : bondmen to be subject to their own masters , to make themselves acceptable in everything ; not gainsaying ; not robbing [ their masters ] , but shewing all good fidelity , that they may adorn the teaching which [ is ] of our Saviour God in all things . For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared , teaching us that , having denied impiety and worldly lusts , we should live soberly , and justly , and piously in the present course of things , awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us , that he might redeem us from all lawlessness , and purify to himself a peculiar people , zealous for good works . These things speak , and exhort , and rebuke with all authority . Let no one despise thee . Put them in mind to be subject to rulers , to authorities , to be obedient to rule , to be ready to do every good work , to speak evil of no one , not to be contentious , [ to be ] mild , shewing all meekness towards all men . For we were once ourselves also without intelligence , disobedient , wandering in error , serving various lusts and pleasures , living in malice and envy , hateful , [ and ] hating one another . But when the kindness and love to man of our Saviour God appeared , not on the principle of works which [ have been done ] in righteousness which * we * had done , but according to his own mercy he saved us through [ the ] washing of regeneration and renewal of [ the ] Holy Spirit , which he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Saviour ; that , having been justified by * his * grace , we should become heirs according to [ the ] hope of eternal life . The word [ is ] faithful , and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things , that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works . These things are good and profitable to men . But foolish questions , and genealogies , and strifes , and contentions about the law , shun ; for they are unprofitable and vain . An heretical man after a first and second admonition have done with , knowing that such a one is perverted , and sins , being self-condemned . When I shall send Artemas to thee , or Tychicus , use diligence to come to me to Nicopolis ; for I have decided to winter there . Zenas the lawyer and Apollos set forward diligently on their way , that nothing may be lacking to them ; and let ours also learn to apply themselves to good works for necessary wants , that they may not be unfruitful . All with me salute thee . Salute those who love us in [ the ] faith . Grace [ be ] with you all .