Titus 1

Greeting

1Paul, # 1:1 Ac 13:9 a servant of God # 1:1 Ac 16:17; Rm 1:1; Eph 6:6; Jms 1:1; 1Pt 2:16; Rv 1:1 and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for # 1:1 Or according to the faith of God’s elect # 1:1 Mt 22:14; 24:22; Lk 18:7; Rm 8:33; Col 3:12; 1Co 1:27–28; 1Th 1:4; Jms 2:5 and their knowledge of the truth # 1:1 1Tm 2:4; 2Tm 3:7 that leads # 1:1 Or corresponds to godliness, # 1:1 1Tm 6:3 2in the hope of eternal life # 1:2 1Co 15:19; Ti 3:7; Heb 9:15 that God, who cannot lie, # 1:2 Nm 23:19; Heb 6:18 promised before time began. # 1:2 Rm 1:2; 2Tm 1:9 3In his own time he has revealed # 1:3 Jn 21:1; 2Co 4:11; 1Pt 5:4; 1Jn 1:2 his word # 1:3 Jn 1:1; 2:22; 2Tm 2:15; Heb 4:12 in the preaching with which I was entrusted # 1:3 1Tm 1:11; 6:20; 2Tm 1:12,14 by the command # 1:3 1Tm 1:1 of God our Savior: # 1:3 1Tm 1:1; 2:3; Ti 2:10; 3:4; Jd 25

4To Titus, # 1:4 2Co 2:13; 7:6,13–14; 8:6,16,23; 12:18; Gl 2:1,3; 2Tm 4:10 my true son # 1:4 1Tm 1:2 in our common faith.

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. # 1:4 Rm 1:7; 1Co 1:3

Titus’s Ministry in Crete

5The reason I left you in Crete # 1:5 Ac 27:7,12–13 was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders # 1:5 1Tm 3:1–7; 5:17 in every town. 6An elder # 1:6–8 1Tm 3:2–4 must be blameless, # 1:6 Col 1:22 the husband of one wife, with faithful # 1:6 Or believing children who are not accused of wildness or rebellion. 7As an overseer # 1:7 Ac 20:28; Php 1:1; 1Pt 2:25 of God’s household, he must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not an excessive drinker, not a bully, not greedy for money, 8but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, self-controlled, 9holding to the faithful message as taught, # 1:9 Ac 2:42 so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching # 1:9 1Tm 1:10; 6:3; 2Tm 1:13; Ti 2:1 and to refute those who contradict it.

10For there are many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from the circumcision party. 11It is necessary to silence them; they are ruining entire households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly. 12One of their very own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 13This testimony is true. # 1:13 Jn 8:14 For this reason, rebuke them sharply, # 1:13 2Co 13:10 so that they may be sound in the faith 14and may not pay attention to Jewish myths # 1:14 1Tm 1:4; 4:7; 2Tm 4:4; 2Pt 1:16 and the commands of people who reject the truth. # 1:14 2Tm 4:4

15To the pure, everything is pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; in fact, both their mind and conscience # 1:15 Heb 13:18 are defiled. 16They claim to know God, # 1:16 Jn 7:28 but they deny him by their works. # 1:16 Mk 14:6; 2Co 9:8; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14–26 They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work. # 1:16 2Co 9:8

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1Sha'ul an eved of Hashem and a Shliach of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, for the furtherance of the#1:1 charedi (orthodox) emunah of the Bechirei Hashem (chosen ones of G-d) and of da'as HaEmes (knowledge of the Truth) as pertains to chasidus.#1:1 in Moshiach 2The mekor (basis) of this is a tikvah of Chayyei Olam which Hashem Who cannot speak sheker#1:2 Num 24:19; 1Sm 15:29 promised before the Yamim HaOlam (days of eternity), 3But revealed at the proper time Hashemʼs dvar#1:3 Besuras HaGeulah in the hachrazah (proclamation, kerygma), with which I was entrusted, according to the mitzvat Hashem Moshieinu.

4To Titos, beni ha'amitti baEmunah (my true son in the faith), the#1:4 orthodox Jewish emunah shared in common. Chen v'Chesed Hashem and Shalom from Elohim HaAv and Moshiach Yehoshua Moshieinu.

5For this reason I left you in Crete that you should set beseder (according to acceptable order) what remains and give messianic s'michah to Zekenim#1:5 Ex 12:21 city by city, as I directed you. 6If anyone is without reproach, a ba'al isha echat (a one woman man/master),#1:6 1Ti 3:2; 5:9 his banim being ma'aminim in Moshiach, and not under accusation of debauchery and zenut or sorrut (rebelliousness, insubordination),#1:6 1Sm 2:22-25 7For it is necessary for the congregational Mashgiach Ruchani to be without reproach as Hashemʼs mefake'ach al Beis Hashem (steward or supervisor of the House of G-d), not a ba'al gaavah (a haughty person), not quick in ka'as (anger), not a shikkor (drunkard) given to much wine, not violent, not a gelt-loving kamtzan (miser). 8Rather, the Mashgiach Ruchani must be one who practices hachnosas orchim (hospitality), an ohev es haTov (a lover of the good), having seichel, a tzaddik, kadosh (holy), with shlitah atzmi (self-control), 9Devoted to the faithful hatafah (preaching) of the Besuras HaGeulah, adequate for hora'ah (teaching) that exhorts to#1:9 Moshiachʼs orthodox Jewish doctrine and for refuting and exposing with conviction the ones speaking against it.

10For there are indeed many mitnaggedim (opponents), idle talkers and deceivers, especially the ones of the party of the Mohalim HaGoyim (false teacher Circumcisers of Gentiles), 11Whose mouths it is necessary to stop, who are subverting entire mishpochot (families) by teaching what they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gelt. 12A certain one of them, a “navi” of their own number, said, “Cretans are always meshakkrim (liars), wicked beasts, lazy trombeniks (gluttons).” 13This eidus (testimony) is true, for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be orthodox Jewish in#1:13 Moshiachʼs emunah, 14Not paying attention to Jewish aggadot and to mitzvot d'Rabbanan (precepts imposed by the rabbis),#1:14 i.e., which contradict the Kitvei Hakodesh — 1C 4:6; Dt 4:2 becoming meshummad (apostate) from HaEmes. 15All things are tahor to hatehorim; but, to the ones having been defiled and taking the side of the Apikoros, nothing is tahor, but has been made tameh, both lev and matzpun. 16Hashem they profess to know, but by their ma'asim they deny him, being disqualified#1:16 for the rabbanut or ministry of Moshiach and being without mishma'at (obedience), and, as to every one of the ma'asim tovim, unpalatably unkosher (unfit).

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