1. Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ for the sake of the faith of God’s chosen ones and the recognition of religious truth,
2. in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began,
3. who indeed at the proper time revealed his word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the command of God our savior,
4. to Titus, my true child in our common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior.
5. For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might set right what remains to be done and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you,
6. on condition that a man be blameless, married only once, with believing children who are not accused of licentiousness or rebellious.
7. For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain,