When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

The reason I left you in Crete was to set in order the remaining matters and to appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

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.

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.

showing yourself to be an example of good works in every way. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Slaves ¹  are to be subject to their own masters in everything, ²  to do what is wanted and not talk back,

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

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

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

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

to be self-controlled, ¹  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, ²  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message ³  of God may not be discredited. ⁴ 

Here is another way that our people ¹  can learn ²  to engage in good works to meet pressing needs and so not be unfruitful.

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” ¹ 

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

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

and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ¹  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

He ¹  gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, ²  who are eager to do good. ³ 

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,