of Onesiphorus.

(20)Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left at Miletus sick.

(21)Endeavor to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens,
and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

(22)The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.

THE LETTER OF PAUL TO TITUS.

I.

PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith
of God's chosen, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to
godliness; (2)upon hope of eternal life, which God, who can not lie,
promised before eternal ages, (3)but in its own[1:3] times manifested
his word in the preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the
commandment of our Savior God; (4)to Titus, a true child according to
the common faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ
Jesus our Savior.

(5)For this cause I left thee behind in Crete, that thou shouldest set
in order the things that are wanting, and appoint elders in each city,
as I directed thee; (6)if any one is without reproach, the husband of
one wife, having believing children not accused of rioting or unruly.
(7)For the overseer[1:7] must be, without reproach, as God's steward;
not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not
greedy of gain; (8)but hospitable, a lover of the good, discreet,
just, holy, temperate; (9)holding fast the faithful word according to
the teaching, that he may be able with the sound teaching both to
exhort, and to refute the gainsayers. (10)For there are many unruly
vain talkers and deceivers, chiefly they of the circumcision;
(11)whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole houses, teaching
things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain. (12)One of
themselves, a prophet of their own, said: Cretans are always liars,
evil beasts, lazy gluttons. (13)This testimony is true. For which
cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
(14)not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, who
turn away from the truth.

(15)To the pure all things are pure; but to the defiled and
unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and conscience are
defiled. (16)They profess that they know God; but by their works they
deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and for every good work
reprobate.

II.

BUT do thou speak the things which become the sound teaching; (2)that
aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in the faith, in love, in
patience; (3)tha