1 神的仆人、耶稣基督的使徒保罗（这是为着 神选民的信心， 和那合乎敬虔真理的知识； 2 这都是根据永生的盼望， 这永生就是没有谎言的 神在万世以前所应许的。 3 到了适当的时候， 神就借着福音的宣讲， 把他的道显明出来。照着 神我们救主的命令， 这宣讲的使命交托了我）， 4 写信给提多， 就是那在共同的信仰上作我真儿子的。愿恩惠平安从父 神和我们的救主基督耶稣临到你。 5 我从前留你在克里特岛， 是要你办好没有办完的事， 并且照我所吩咐的， 在各城设立长老。 6 如果有人无可指摘， 只作一个妻子的丈夫， 儿女都信主， 也没有人控告他们放荡或不受约束， 才可以作长老。 7 因为监督是 神的管家， 所以必须无可指摘、不任性、不随便动怒、不好酒、不打人、不贪不义之财； 8 却要接待客旅、喜爱良善、自律、公正、圣洁、自制， 9 坚守那合乎教义、可靠的真道， 好使他能够用纯正的道理劝勉人， 并且能够折服反对的人。 10 因为有许多不受约束、好讲空话和欺骗人的， 尤其是那些守割礼的人， 11 他们为了可耻的利益， 教训一些不应该教导的事， 败坏人的全家， 你务要堵住他们的嘴。 12 有一个克里特本地的先知说过： "克里特人是常常说谎的， 是恶兽， 好吃懒作。" 13 这见证是真的。为了这缘故， 你要严厉地责备他们， 好使他们在信仰上健全， 14 不再理会犹太人的无稽之谈和偏离正道的人的规条。 15 在清洁的人， 一切都是清洁的； 但在污秽和不信的人， 没有一样是清洁的， 连他们的意念和良心都污秽了。 16 他们声称认识 神， 却在行为上否认他。他们是可憎的、悖逆的， 在各样的善事上， 是毫无用处的。

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;8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,9 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;10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre`s sake.12 A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!`13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;15 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;16 God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.