Tito 1

1Pablo, siervo de Dios y apóstol de Jesucristo, para la fe de los escogidos de Dios, y el conocimiento de la verdad que es conforme a la piedad

2en la esperanza de la vida eterna, que Dios, el que no miente, prometió antes de los tiempos eternos,

3que a su debido tiempo ha dado a conocer su palabra por la predicación a mí confiada por el mandato de Dios nuestro Salvador:

4a Tito, hijo verdadero según la fe que nos es común: gracia y paz de parte de Dios Padre y de Cristo Jesús nuestro Salvador.

5Por esta causa te he dejado en Creta, para que arregles las cosas que faltan y para que constituyas presbíteros en cada ciudad, como yo te ordené,

6si hay quien sea irreprochable, marido de una sola mujer, y tenga hijos creyentes, no tachados de libertinaje ni de rebeldía.

7Porque el obispo ha de ser irreprochable, como que es dispensador de Dios; no arrogante, no colérico, no dado al vino, no pendenciero, no codicioso de vil ganancia;

8sino hospitalario, amador del bien, prudente, justo, santo, continente.

9Debe atenerse a la palabra fiel, la cual es conforme a la enseñanza, a fin de que pueda instruir en la sana doctrina y refutar a los que contradicen.

10Porque hay muchos rebeldes, vanos habladores y embaucadores, sobre todo entre los de la circuncisión,

11a quienes es menester tapar la boca; hombres que trastornan casas enteras, enseñando por torpe ganancia lo que no deben.

12Uno de ellos, su propio profeta, dijo: “Los cretenses son siempre mentirosos, malas bestias, vientres perezosos”.

13Este testimonio es verdadero. Por tanto repréndelos severamente, a fin de que sean sanos en la fe,

14y no den oídos a fábulas judaicas, ni a mandamientos de hombres apartados de la verdad.

15Para los limpios todo es limpio; mas para los contaminados e incrédulos nada hay limpio, pues su mente y conciencia están manchadas.

16Profesan conocer a Dios, mas con sus obras le niegan, siendo abominables y rebeldes y réprobos para toda obra buena.

1Paulus servus Dei, Apostolus autem Jesu Christi secundum fidem electorum Dei, et agnitionem veritatis, quæ secundum pietatem est

2in spem vitæ æternæ, quam promisit qui non mentitur, Deus, ante tempora sæcularia:

3manifestavit autem temporibus suis verbum suum in prædicatione, quæ credita est mihi secundum præceptum Salvatoris nostri Dei:

4Tito dilecto filio secundum communem fidem, gratia, et pax a Deo Patre, et Christo Jesu Salvatore nostro.

5Hujus rei gratia reliqui te Cretæ, ut ea quæ desunt, corrigas, et constituas per civitates presbyteros, sicut et ego disposui tibi,

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

7Oportet enim episcopum sine crimine esse, sicut Dei dispensatorem: non superbum, non iracundum, non vinolentum, non percussorem, non turpis lucri cupidum:

8sed hospitalem, benignum, sobrium, justum, sanctum, continentem,

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

10Sunt enim multi etiam inobedientes, vaniloqui, et seductores: maxime qui de circumcisione sunt:

11quos oportet redargui: qui universas domos subvertunt, docentes quæ non oportet, turpis lucri gratia.

12Dixit quidam ex illis, proprius ipsorum propheta: Cretenses semper mendaces, malæ bestiæ, ventres pigri.

13Testimonium hoc verum est. Quam ob causam increpa illos dure, ut sani sint in fide,

14non intendentes judaicis fabulis, et mandatis hominum, aversantium se a veritate.

15Omnia munda mundis: coinquinatis autem et infidelibus, nihil est mundum, sed inquinatæ sunt eorum et mens et conscientia.

16Confitentur se nosse Deum, factis autem negant: cum sint abominati, et incredibiles, et ad omne opus bonum reprobi.

1Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God and the acknowledging of the truth, which is according to godliness:

2Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

3But hath in due times manifested his word in preaching, which is committed to me 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 from Christ Jesus our Saviour.

5For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

6If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.

7For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

8But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

9Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers.

10For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:

11Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

12One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

13This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

14Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn themselves away from the truth.

15All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

16They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him; being abominable, and incredulous, and to every good work reprobate.