1. Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2. In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began;
3. But has in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
4. To Titus, my own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
5. For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you:
6. If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of rebellion or unruly.
7. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not given to dishonest gain;
8. But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;
9. Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to refute the opposition.