Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
KJV
King James Version
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,
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;
upon
hope of life age-during
, which God, who
doth
not
lie, did
promise
before times
of
ages,
In
hope of eternal
life, which God, that
cannot
lie, promised
before the
world
began;
(and
He
manifested
in proper
times His word ,)
in
preaching, which I
was
entrusted
with,
according to a
charge
of God our Saviour ,
But
hath
in due
times manifested
his word through
preaching, which is
committed
unto
me
according to the
commandment
of God our Saviour ;
to Titus --
true
child
according
to
a
common faith: Grace, kindness
, peace, from God the Father ,
and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour !
To Titus ,
mine
own
son
after
the
common faith: Grace, mercy
, and
peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour .
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 ;
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou
shouldest
set
in
order
the things that
are
wanting
, and ordain
elders
in every city, as I had
appointed
thee :
if any one
is
blameless, of one wife a
husband
, having children stedfast,
not under
accusation
of riotous
living
or insubordinate
--
If any be
blameless, the
husband
of one wife, having faithful
children not accused
of riot
or unruly.
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;
For a
bishop
must
be blameless, as the
steward of
God;
not selfwilled
, not
soon
angry
, not given to wine, no
striker, not given to filthy lucre;
but a lover of strangers
, a lover of good men, sober -minded
, righteous,
kind
, self-controlled
,
But a lover of hospitality
, a lover of good men, sober, just
, holy
, temperate;
holding --
according
to
the
teaching
--
to
the stedfast
word, that he may be able also
to exhort in
the
sound
teaching,
and the gainsayers to
convict;
Holding fast
the faithful
word as
he
hath
been
taught
, that he may be able by
sound
doctrine
both
to exhort and to
convince
the gainsayers .
for there are many both
insubordinate,
vain -
talkers ,
and mind-
deceivers --
especially
they of the circumcision --
For there are many unruly
and
vain talkers and deceivers ,
specially
they of the circumcision :
whose mouth
it
behoveth
to
stop
, who whole households
do
overturn
, teaching what
things it
behoveth
not, for filthy lucre's sake.
Whose mouths
must
be
stopped
, who subvert
whole houses
, teaching things which
they
ought
not, for filthy lucre's sake.
A
certain
one of them
, a prophet of their own, said --
`Cretans!
always
liars, evil beasts, lazy
bellies !'
One of themselves
, even
a prophet of their own, said ,
The
Cretians
are
alway
liars, evil beasts, slow
bellies .
this testimony
is true ;
for
which
cause
convict
them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith ,
This witness
is true .
Wherefore
rebuke
them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith ;
not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands
of men, turning
themselves
away
from the truth ;
Not giving heed to Jewish fables ,
and commandments
of men, that
turn
from the truth .
all things ,
indeed,
`
are '
pure to
the
pure,
and
to
the
defiled and unstedfast
`
is '
nothing pure ,
but of
them
defiled
`are'
even the
mind and the
conscience ;
Unto
the
pure
all things are pure :
but
unto
them
that
are
defiled and unbelieving
is nothing pure ;
but even their
mind and conscience is
defiled.
God
they profess to
know ,
and
in the
works they deny `
Him '
, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved
.
They profess that
they
know God;
but
in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate
.
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