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¹Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

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。

²in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

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），

³but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

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, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

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。

⁵I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;

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 anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

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 the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

⁸却要接待客旅、喜爱良善、自律、公正、圣洁、自制，

⁸but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, 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 to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

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 also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those 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 mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’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。”

¹²One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”

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 this cause, reprove 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 paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn 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。

¹⁵To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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。

¹⁶They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.