1:1 Paulus servus Dei, Apostolus autem Jesu Christi secundum fidem electorum Dei, et agnitionem veritatis, quæ secundum pietatem est

1:1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness:

1:2 in spem vitæ æternæ, quam promisit qui non mentitur, Deus, ante tempora sæcularia :

1:2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

1:3 manifestavit autem temporibus suis verbum suum in prædicatione, quæ credita est mihi secundum præceptum Salvatoris nostri Dei :

1:3 But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our Saviour:

1:4 Tito dilecto filio secundum communem fidem, gratia, et pax a Deo Patre, et Christo Jesu Salvatore nostro.

1:4 To Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith, grace and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Saviour.

1:5 Hujus rei gratia reliqui te Cretæ, ut ea quæ desunt, corrigas, et constituas per civitates presbyteros, sicut et ego disposui tibi,

1:5 For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

1:6 si quis sine crimine est, unius uxoris vir, filios habens fideles, non in accusatione luxuriæ, aut non subditos.

1:6 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.

1:7 Oportet enim episcopum sine crimine esse, sicut Dei dispensatorem : non superbum, non iracundum, non vinolentum, non percussorem, non turpis lucri cupidum :

1:7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

1:8 sed hospitalem, benignum, sobrium, justum, sanctum, continentem,

1:8 But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

1:9 amplectentem eum, qui secundum doctrinam est, fidelem sermonem : ut potens sit exhortari in doctrina sana, et eos qui contradicunt, arguere.

1:9 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers.

1:10 Sunt enim multi etiam inobedientes, vaniloqui, et seductores : maxime qui de circumcisione sunt :

1:10 For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision.

1:11 quos oportet redargui : qui universas domos subvertunt, docentes quæ non oportet, turpis lucri gratia.

1:11 Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

1:12 Dixit quidam ex illis, proprius ipsorum propheta : Cretenses semper mendaces, malæ bestiæ, ventres pigri.

1:12 One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

1:13 Testimonium hoc verum est. Quam ob causam increpa illos dure, ut sani sint in fide,

1:13 This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith:

1:14 non intendentes judaicis fabulis, et mandatis hominum, aversantium se a veritate.

1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth.

1:15 Omnia munda mundis : coinquinatis autem et infidelibus, nihil est mundum, sed inquinatæ sunt eorum et mens et conscientia.

1:15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

1:16 Confitentur se nosse Deum, factis autem negant : cum sint abominati, et incredibiles, et ad omne opus bonum reprobi.

1:16 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.