Titus 1
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1From Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I was sent to help the faith of God’s chosen people and to help them know the truth that shows people how to serve God. 2That faith and that knowledge come from the hope for life forever, which God promised to us before time began. And God cannot lie. 3At the right time God let the world know about that life through preaching. He trusted me with that work, and I preached by the command of God our Savior.
4To Titus, my true child in the faith we share:
Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Titus’ Work in Crete
5I left you in Crete so you could finish doing the things that still needed to be done and so you could appoint elders in every town, as I directed you. 6An elder must not be guilty of doing wrong, must have only one wife, and must have believing children. They must not be known as children who are wild and do not cooperate. 7As God’s managers, overseers must not be guilty of doing wrong, being selfish, or becoming angry quickly. They must not drink too much wine, like to fight, or try to get rich by cheating others. 8Overseers must be ready to welcome guests, love what is good, be wise, live right, and be holy and self-controlled. 9By holding on to the trustworthy word just as we teach it, overseers can help people by using true teaching, and they can show those who are against the true teaching that they are wrong.
10There are many people who refuse to cooperate, who talk about worthless things and lead others into the wrong way—mainly those who insist on circumcision to be saved. 11These people must be stopped, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching things they should not teach, which they do to get rich by cheating people. 12Even one of their own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars, evil animals, and lazy people who do nothing but eat.” 13The words that prophet said are true. So firmly tell those people they are wrong so they may become strong in the faith, 14not accepting Jewish false stories and the commands of people who reject the truth. 15To those who are pure, all things are pure, but to those who are full of sin and do not believe, nothing is pure. Both their minds and their consciences have been ruined. 16They say they know God, but their actions show they do not accept him. They are hateful people, they refuse to obey, and they are useless for doing anything good.
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Titus 1
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Greeting.#On the epistolary form, see note on Rom 1:1–7. The apostolate is the divinely appointed mission to lead others to the true faith and through it to eternal salvation (Ti 1:1–3). 1Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ for the sake of the faith of God’s chosen ones and the recognition of religious truth,#1 Tm 2:4; 4:3; 2 Tm 2:25; 3:7; Heb 10:26. 2in the hope of eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before time began,#3:7; 2 Tm 1:1; 1 Jn 2:25. 3who indeed at the proper time revealed his word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the command of God our savior,#2:10; 3:4; Ps 24:5; 1 Tm 1:1; 2:3; 4:10; Jude 25. 4to Titus, my true child in our common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior.#2:13; 3:6; Phil 3:20; 2 Tm 1:10; 2 Pt 1:11; 2:20; 3:2, 18.
II. PASTORAL CHARGE
Titus in Crete. 5#This instruction on the selection and appointment of presbyters, substantially identical with that in 1 Tm 3:1–7 on a bishop (see note there), was aimed at strengthening the authority of Titus by apostolic mandate; cf. Ti 2:15. In Ti 1:5, 7 and Acts 20:17, 28, the terms episkopos and presbyteros (“bishop” and “presbyter”) refer to the same persons. Deacons are not mentioned in Titus. See also note on Phil 1:1.For this reason I left you in Crete so that you might set right what remains to be done and appoint presbyters in every town, as I directed you, 6#1 Tm 3:2–7; 2 Tm 2:24–26.on condition that a man be blameless, married only once, with believing children who are not accused of licentiousness or rebellious. 7For a bishop as God’s steward must be blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, 8but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, 9holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents.#1:13; 2:1–2, 8; 1 Tm 1:10; 6:3; 2 Tm 1:13; 4:3. 10#This adverse criticism of the defects within the community is directed especially against certain Jewish Christians, who busy themselves with useless speculations over persons mentioned in the Old Testament, insist on the observance of Jewish ritual purity regulations, and thus upset whole families by teaching things they have no right to teach; cf. Ti 3:9; 1 Tm 1:3–10.For there are also many rebels, idle talkers and deceivers, especially the Jewish Christians.#Jewish Christians: literally, “those of the circumcision.” 11It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not. 12One of them, a prophet of their own, once said, “Cretans have always been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons.”#Cretans…gluttons: quoted from Epimenides, a Cretan poet of the sixth century B.C. 13That testimony is true. Therefore, admonish them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,#1:9. 14instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and regulations of people who have repudiated the truth.#3:9; 1 Tm 1:4; 4:7; 2 Tm 4:4; 2 Pt 1:16. 15To the clean all things are clean, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean; in fact, both their minds and their consciences are tainted.#Mk 7:18–23; Acts 10:15; Rom 14:14–23. 16They claim to know God, but by their deeds they deny him. They are vile and disobedient and unqualified for any good deed.
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