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1 This letter is from Paul, a slave of God and a missionary of Yeshua the messiah and follower of the faith of the ones that God has chosen.
I share the knowledge of the truth which leads to godliness 2 and the expectation of living forever which God promised before time began. And God can’t lie 3 but revealed his message in his own time, and I’ve been entrusted to proclaim this by the command of God our saviour.
4 [ref]To Titos, my true son due to our common faith. May God the father and our saviour Yeshua the messiah give you grace and peace.
1:5 Qualifications for leaders
5 The reason that I asked you to stay behind in Crete was so that you would find what needed to be reorganised and so that you would appoint elders in every city just as I had directed you. 6 [ref]Each elder must have a clean record, be the husband of one wife, and have believing children who are not wild or disobedient. 7 Any overseer in the assembly as a manager working for God must have a clean record, not be self-centred, not be quick to get angry, not addicted to wine, not a bully, and not greedy, 8 but rather hospitable, someone who loves what is good, sensible, honest, loves God, and self-controlled. 9 He must hold faithfully to the message that was taught, so that he will be effective in encouraging others with sound teaching and to be rebuking those who speak against the message.
1:10 Handling those who go off the track
10 There’s plenty of people who don’t want to be told what to do, empty talkers and outright deceivers, especially those that push the letter of the law. 11 These people need to be silenced because they mess up whole families when they teach them things that they shouldn’t—all for the sake of shameful game. 12 One of their own prophets said that the people from Crete are liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons, 13 and that’s right. For those reasons, you need to sternly tell them they’re wrong, so that they can become sound in their faith, 14 and not pay attention to Jewish myths or human rules which turn people away from the truth. 15 For someone who’s pure in their thinking, everything is pure to them, but for unbelievers and those who’ve strayed from the truth, nothing is pure because their minds and consciences have already been damaged—16 they say that they know God, but their actions show that they don’t, and so they’re detestable. They can no longer accept teaching so they’re unsuitable for any good work.