22THE LORD JESUS CHRIST [BE] WITH THE SPIRIT OF YOU. <THE> GRACE [BE] WITH YOU ALL AMEN. TO TIMOTHY SECOND [EPISTLE] OF THE EPHESIAN CHURCH FIRST OVERSEER HAVING BEEN CHOSEN IT WAS WRITTEN FROM ROME WHEN FROM SECOND TIME STOOD PAUL <THE> BEFORE CAESAR NERO 22The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.*NoteCloseBYZ and TR include Amen.
1PAUL A SERVANT OF GOD AN APOSTLE NOW OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO [THE] FAITH OF [THE] ELECT OF GOD AND KNOWLEDGE OF [THE] TRUTH WHICH [IS] ACCORDING TO GODLINESS Paul’s Greeting to Titus (2 Corinthians 8:16–24) 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,
2IN [THE] HOPE OF LIFE ETERNAL, WHICH PROMISED <THE> WHO CANNOT LIE GOD BEFORE TIME ETERNAL. 2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.*NoteCloseLiterally before times eternal
3HE REVEALED NOW [IN] SEASONS [HIS] OWN IN THE WORD OF HIM IN [THE] PROCLAMATION WITH WHICH WAS ENTRUSTED I MYSELF ACCORDING TO [THE] COMMANDMENT OF THE SAVIOR OF US GOD; 3In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.
4TO TITUS [MY] TRUE CHILD ACCORDING TO [OUR] COMMON FAITH: GRACE AND PEACE FROM GOD [THE] FATHER AND LORD CHRIST JESUS THE SAVIOR OF US. 4To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
5OF THIS BECAUSE I LEFT YOU IN CRETE, SO THAT THE [THINGS] LACKING YOU MAY SET IN ORDER AND MAY APPOINT IN EVERY TOWN ELDERS AS I MYSELF YOU DIRECTED; Appointing Elders on Crete (1 Timothy 3:1–7; 1 Peter 5:1–4) 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.
6IF ANYONE IS BLAMELESS, OF ONE WIFE [THE] HUSBAND, CHILDREN HAVING BELIEVING, NOT UNDER ACCUSATION OF DEBAUCHERY OR INSUBORDINATE. 6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife,*NoteCloseOr faithful to his wife having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.
7IT BEHOOVES FOR THE OVERSEER BLAMELESS TO BE AS GOD’S STEWARD, NOT SELF-WILLED, NOT QUICK TEMPERED, NOT GIVEN TO WINE, NOT A STRIKER, NOT GREEDY OF BASE GAIN, 7As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach— not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
8BUT HOSPITABLE, A LOVER OF GOOD, SELF-CONTROLLED, UPRIGHT, HOLY, [AND] DISCIPLINED, 8Instead, he must be hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.
9HOLDING <THE> ACCORDING TO THE TEACHING OF [THE] FAITHFUL WORD, THAT ABLE HE MAY BE BOTH TO ENCOURAGE WITH <THE> TEACHING <THE> SOUND AND THOSE CONTRADICTING [IT] TO CONVICT. 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.
10THERE ARE FOR MANY ALSO INSUBORDINATE, EMPTY TALKERS AND DECEIVERS ESPECIALLY THOSE OF THE CIRCUMCISION Correcting False Teachers (1 Timothy 1:3–11) 10For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
11WHOM IT IS NECESSARY TO SILENCE; WHO WHOLE HOUSEHOLDS OVERTHROW TEACHING THINGS THAT [THEY] NOT OUGHT OF SHAMEFUL GAIN BECAUSE. 11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
12SAID ONE OF THEM OWN OF THEM A PROPHET; CRETANS [ARE] ALWAYS LIARS, EVIL BEASTS, GLUTTONS LAZY. 12As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”*NoteCloseThis quote, also known as the Epimenides paradox, has been attributed to the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos.
13<THE> TESTIMONY THIS IS TRUE; FOR WHICH CAUSE DO REBUKE THEM SEVERELY, SO THAT THEY MAY BE SOUND IN THE FAITH, 13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
14NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH MYTHS AND TO [THE] COMMANDMENTS OF MEN TURNING AWAY FROM THE TRUTH. 14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
15ALL THINGS [ARE] INDEED PURE TO THE PURE; TO THOSE HOWEVER DEFILED AND UNBELIEVING NO [THING] [IS] PURE, INSTEAD HAVE BEEN DEFILED OF THEM BOTH <THE> MIND AND <THE> CONSCIENCE. 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.
16GOD THEY PROFESS TO KNOW, <THE> HOWEVER BY [THEIR] WORKS THEY DENY [HIM] DETESTABLE BEING AND DISOBEDIENT AND FOR ANY WORK GOOD UNFIT. 16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.