Paul’s Greeting to Titus
(2 Corinthians 8:16–24)

1Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the perfect knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness, 2in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times, 3and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

4to Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Appointing Elders on Crete
(1 Timothy 3:1–7; 1 Peter 5:1–4)

5Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you; 6if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible. 7For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre; 8but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate; 9holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers.

Correcting False Teachers
(1 Timothy 1:3–11)

10For many are incorrigible, speaking vain things and egotistical, especially those from the circumcision, 11whose mouths it is necessary to stop; who overturn whole families, teaching those things which it does not behoove, for the sake of disgraceful gain. 12A certain one of them, their own prophet, said, The Cretans are all liars, evil beasts, slow stomachs. 13This testimony is true: on account of which cause convict them sharply, in order that they may be sound in the faith, 14not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men turning away from the truth. 15To the pure all things are pure: but to the corrupted and unbelieving there is nothing pure; yea, their mind and their conscience are polluted. 16They profess to know God, but deny him by their works, being abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate unto every good work.