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Titus 1

The Message Bible MSG

1 I, Paul, am God's slave and Christ's agent for promoting the faith among God's chosen people, getting out the accurate word on God and how to respond rightly to it.

2 My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago - and he doesn't break promises!

3 And then when the time was ripe, he went public with his truth. I've been entrusted to proclaim this Message by order of our Savior, God himself.

4 Dear Titus, legitimate son in the faith: Receive everything God our Father and Jesus our Savior give you!

5 I left you in charge in Crete so you could complete what I left half-done. Appoint leaders in every town according to my instructions.

6 As you select them, ask, "Is this man well-thought-of? Are his children believers? Do they respect him and stay out of trouble?"

7 It's important that a church leader, responsible for the affairs in God's house, be looked up to - not pushy, not short-tempered, not a drunk, not a bully, not money-hungry.

8 He must welcome people, be helpful, wise, fair, reverent, have a good grip on himself,

9 and have a good grip on the Message, knowing how to use the truth to either spur people on in knowledge or stop them in their tracks if they oppose it.

10 For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst.

11 They've got to be shut up. They're disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck.

12 One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies.

13 He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules

14 so they can recover a robust faith.

15 Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act.

16 They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They're real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 Paulus servus Dei apostolus autem Iesu Christi secundum fidem electorum Dei et agnitionem veritatis quae secundum pietatem est

2 in spem vitae aeternae quam promisit qui non mentitur Deus ante tempora saecularia

3 manifestavit autem temporibus suis verbum suum in praedicatione quae credita est mihi secundum praeceptum salvatoris nostri Dei

4 Tito dilecto filio secundum communem fidem gratia et pax a Deo Patre et Christo Iesu salvatore nostro

5 huius rei gratia reliqui te Cretae ut ea quae desunt corrigas et constituas per civitates presbyteros sicut ego tibi disposui

6 si quis sine crimine est unius uxoris vir filios habens fideles non in accusatione luxuriae aut non subditos

7 oportet enim episcopum sine crimine esse sicut Dei dispensatorem non superbum non iracundum non vinolentum non percussorem non turpilucri cupidum

8 sed hospitalem benignum sobrium iustum sanctum continentem

9 amplectentem eum qui secundum doctrinam est fidelem sermonem ut potens sit et exhortari in doctrina sana et eos qui contradicunt arguere

10 sunt enim multi et inoboedientes vaniloqui et seductores maxime qui de circumcisione sunt

11 quos oportet redargui qui universas domos subvertunt docentes quae non oportet turpis lucri gratia

12 dixit quidam ex illis proprius ipsorum propheta Cretenses semper mendaces malae bestiae ventres pigri

13 testimonium hoc verum est quam ob causam increpa illos dure ut sani sint in fide

14 non intendentes iudaicis fabulis et mandatis hominum aversantium se a veritate

15 omnia munda mundis coinquinatis autem et infidelibus nihil mundum sed inquinatae sunt eorum et mens et conscientia

16 confitentur se nosse Deum factis autem negant cum sunt abominati et incredibiles et ad omne opus bonum reprobi