{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/titus/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:18:31.089Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Titus","bookSlug":"titus","chapter":1,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"to Titus — true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate — "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"holding — according to the teaching — to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they of the circumcision — "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved."}],"citation":{"inline":"Titus 1 (YLT)","markdown":"[Titus 1](https://primebible.com/ylt/titus/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/titus/1 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}