1. Paul, bondman of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect, and knowledge of the truth which is according to piety;
2. in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages of time,
3. but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;
4. to Titus, my own child according to the faith common to us: Grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
5. For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee: