Titus 1
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness:
2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
2Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:
3In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.
3But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:
4To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
4To Titus my beloved son, according to the common faith, grace and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Saviour.
5The reason I left you in Crete was that you would set in order what was unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
5For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:
6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
6If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.
7As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
7For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:
8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
8But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:
9He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it.
9Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers.
10For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
10For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:
11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
11Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
12One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.
13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
13This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
14Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn themselves away from the truth.
15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
15All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
16They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him; being abominable, and incredulous, and to every good work reprobate.
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