1. Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that [is] according to piety,
2. upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,
3. (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,
4. to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
5. For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;
6. if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--
7. for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;