Make every effort to help ¹  Zenas the lawyer ²  and Apollos on their way; make sure they have what they need. ³ 

who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!

This saying ¹  is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths, ²  so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people.

But now in his own time ¹  he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

From Paul, ¹  a slave ²  of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith ³  of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that is in keeping with godliness,

For the overseer ¹  must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, ²  not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

And so, ¹  since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life.” ² 

Reject a divisive person after one or two warnings.

Everyone with me greets you. Greet those who love us in the faith. ¹  Grace be with you all. ² 

An elder must be blameless, ¹  the husband of one wife, ²  with faithful children ³  who cannot be charged with dissipation or rebellion.

¹  But “when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

Such testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply that they may be healthy in the faith

So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke ¹  that carries full authority. ²  Don’t let anyone look down ³  on you.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, ¹  quarrels, and fights about the law, ²  because they are useless and empty.

But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with ¹  sound teaching.