From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward. Book 56 Titus 001:001 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, 001:002 in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began; 001:003 but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior; 001:004 to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. 001:005 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; 001:006 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior. 001:007 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; 001:008 but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled; 001:009 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him. 001:010 For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 001:011 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake. 001:012 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons." 001:013 This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 001:014 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. 001:015 To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 001:016 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. 002:001 But say the things which fit sound doctrine, 002:002 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: 002:003 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 002:004 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 002:005 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.