| King James Bible | New International Version |
| 1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; | 1Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ to further the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness-- |
| 2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; | 2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time, |
| 3But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour; | 3and which now at his appointed season he has brought to light through the preaching entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior, |
| 4To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour. | 4To Titus, my true son in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. |
| 5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: | 5The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. |
| 6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. | 6An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient. |
| 7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; | 7Since an overseer manages God's household, he must be blameless--not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. |
| 8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; | 8Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. |
| 9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. | 9He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. |
| 10For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: | 10For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group. |
| 11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. | 11They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach--and that for the sake of dishonest gain. |
| 12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. | 12One of Crete's own prophets has said it: "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons." |
| 13This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; | 13This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith |
| 14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. | 14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth. |
| 15Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. | 15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. |
| 16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. | 16They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. |
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