Titus: Revised Murdock Translation

I.

¹ PAULOS, a servant of Alaha, and a apostle of Yeshua Mshikha; according to the faith of the elect of Alaha, and the knowledge of the truth which is in the fear of Alaha,
² concerning the hope of eternal life, which the veracious Alaha promised before the times of the world;
³ and in due time he has manifested his word, by means of our announcement, which was confided to me by the command of Alaha our Life-giver;
⁴ to Titos, a real son after the common faith: Grace and peace from Alaha our Father, and from Maran Yeshua Mshikha, our Life-giver.
⁵ For this cause left I you in Crete, that you might regulate the things deficient, and establish elders in every city, as I directed you:
⁶ him who is blameless, who is the husband of one wife, and has believing children, who are no revellers, nor ungovernable in sensuality.
⁷ For an elder ought to be blameless, as the steward of Alaha; and not be self-willed, nor irascible, nor excessive in wine, nor with hands swift to strike, nor a lover of base gains.
⁸ But he should be a lover of strangers, and a lover of good [deeds], and be sober, upright, kind-hearted, and restraining himself from evil passions;
⁹ and studious of the doctrine of the word of faith, that he may be able by his wholesome teaching both to console, and to rebuke them that are contentious.
¹⁰ For many are unsubmissive, and their discourses vain; and they mislead the minds of people, especially such as are of the circumcision.
¹¹ The mouth of these ought to be stopped: they corrupt many families; and they teach what they ought not, for the sake of base gains.
¹² One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “The Cretans are always mendacious, evil beasts, idle bellies.”*
¹³ And this testimony is true. Therefore chide them sharply; that they may be sound in the faith,
¹⁴ and may not throw themselves into Jewish fables, and into the precepts of men who hate the truth.
¹⁵ For to the pure, every thing is pure; but to them who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their understanding is defiled, and their conscience.
¹⁶ And they profess that they know Alaha, but in their works they deny him; and they are odious, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobates.

II.

¹ But speak you the things that belong to wholesome doctrine.
² And teach the older men to be watchful in their minds, and to be sober, and to be pure, and to be sound in the faith, and in love and in patience.
³ And so also the elder women, that they be in behavior as becomes the fear of Alaha; and not to be slanderers; and not to be addicted to much wine; and to be inculcators of good things,
⁴ making the younger women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children,
⁵ to be chaste and holy, and to take good care of their households, and to be obedient to their husbands; so that no one may reproach the word of Alaha.
⁶ And likewise exhort young men to be sober.
⁷ And in every thing show yourself a pattern, as to all good works: and in your teaching, let your discourse be healthful,
⁸ such as is sober and uncorrupt; and let no one despise it: so that he who rises up against us, may be ashamed, seeing he can say nothing odious against us.
⁹ Let servants obey their masters in everything, and strive to please them, and not contradict, nor pilfer;
¹⁰ but let them manifest that their fidelity, in all respects, is good: so that they may adorn the doctrine of Alaha our Life-giver, in all things.
¹¹ For the all-vivifying grace of Alaha, is revealed to all men;
¹² and it teaches us, to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live in this world in sobriety, and in uprightness, and in the fear of Alaha,
¹³ looking for the blessed hope, and the manifestation of the glory of the great Alaha, and our Life-giver, Yeshua Mshikha;
¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might recover us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a new people, who are zealous in good works.
¹⁵ These things speak you, and exhort, and inculcate, with all authority; and let no one despise you.

III.

¹ And admonish them to be submissive and obedient to princes and potentates; and that they be ready for every good work;
² and that they speak ill of no man; that they be not contentious, but mild; and that in every thing they manifest benignity towards all men.
³ For we also were formerly reckless, and disobedient, and erring, and serving divers lusts, and living in malice and envy, and were hateful and also hating one another.
⁴ But when the kindness and compassion of Alaha our Life-giver was revealed,
⁵ not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy, he vivified us, by the washing of the new birth, and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
⁶ which he shed on us abundantly, by Yeshua Mshikha our Life-giver:
⁷ that we might be justified by his grace, and become heirs in the hope of eternal life.
⁸ Faithful is the word: and in these things, I would have you also establish them; so that they, who have believed in Alaha, may be careful to cultivate good works: these are the things, which are good, and profitable to men.
⁹ But foolish questions, and stories of genealogies, and the disputes and contests of the scribes, avoid: for there is no profit in them, and they are vain.
¹⁰ An heretical man, after you have instructed him once and again, avoid:
¹¹ and know you, that such a man is perverse, and sinful, and self-condemned.
¹² When I shall send Artemas to you, or Tychicus, strive you to come to me at Nicopolis; for I have purposed to winter there.
¹³ As for Zena the Scribe, and Apollo, endeavor to help them well on their way, that they may want nothing.
¹⁴ And let our people learn also to perform good works, on occasions of emergency, that they may not be unfruitful.
¹⁵ All they that are with me salute you. Salute all them who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.

End of the Epistle to Titus; which was written from Nicopolis, and was sent by the hands of Zena and Apollo.

Reference Notes:

1:12 Line 2 of Epimenides' Cretica.