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¹Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that [is] according to piety,

²这都是根据永生的盼望，这永生就是没有谎言的　神在万世以前所应许的。

²upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

³到了适当的时候，　神就借着福音的宣讲，把他的道显明出来。照着　神我们救主的命令，这宣讲的使命交托了我），

³(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

⁴写信给提多，就是那在共同的信仰上作我真儿子的。愿恩惠平安从父　神和我们的救主基督耶稣临到你。

⁴to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

⁵提多在克里特的工作我从前留你在克里特岛，是要你办好没有办完的事，并且照我所吩咐的，在各城设立长老。

⁵For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

⁶如果有人无可指摘，只作一个妻子的丈夫，儿女都信主，也没有人控告他们放荡或不受约束，才可以作长老。

⁶if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

⁷因为监督是　神的管家，所以必须无可指摘、不任性、不随便动怒、不好酒、不打人、不贪不义之财；

⁷for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

⁸却要接待客旅、喜爱良善、自律、公正、圣洁、自制，

⁸but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

⁹坚守那合乎教义、可靠的真道，好使他能够用纯正的道理劝勉人，并且能够折服反对的人。

⁹holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

¹⁰因为有许多不受约束、好讲空话和欺骗人的，尤其是那些守割礼的人，

¹⁰for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

¹¹他们为了可耻的利益，教训一些不应该教导的事，败坏人的全家，你务要堵住他们的嘴。

¹¹whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹²有一个克里特本地的先知说过：“克里特人是常常说谎的，是恶兽，好吃懒作。”

¹²A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

¹³这见证是真的。为了这缘故，你要严厉地责备他们，好使他们在信仰上健全，

¹³this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

¹⁴不再理会犹太人的无稽之谈和偏离正道的人的规条。

¹⁴not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

¹⁵在清洁的人，一切都是清洁的；但在污秽和不信的人，没有一样是清洁的，连他们的意念和良心都污秽了。

¹⁵all things, indeed, [are] pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast [is] nothing pure, but of them defiled [are] even the mind and the conscience;

¹⁶他们声称认识　神，却在行为上否认他。他们是可憎的、悖逆的，在各样的善事上，是毫无用处的。

¹⁶God they profess to know, and in the works they deny [Him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.