1. Paul, a servant of God, and an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
2. in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
3. but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
4. to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah our Saviour.
5. I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
6. if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behaviour.
7. For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
8. but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;