¹Pauro muranda waMwari, nemuapositori waJesu Kristu, zvichienderana nerutendo rwevasanangurwa vaMwari nekugamuchira chokwadi chiri pauMwari,

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,

²patariro yeupenyu hwusingaperi, uhwo Mwari usingarevi nhema hwaakavimbisa, nhambo dzenguva dzisati dzavapo,

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

³asi panguva dzakafanira wakaratidza shoko rake kubudukidza nekuparidza kwakakumikidzwa kwandiri zvichienderana nemurairo waMwari Muponesi wedu,

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

⁴kuna Tito, mwana wangu chaiye parutendo rwakafanana: Nyasha, tsitsi, rugare zvinobva kuna Mwari Baba naIshe Jesu Kristu Muponesi wedu.

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

⁵Nekuda kwaizvozvi ndakakusiya paKrete, kuti ugadzirise zvinhu zvakasara, uye ugadze vakuru muguta roga roga, sezvandakakuraira;

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;

⁶kana ani nani usina chaangapomerwa, murume wemukadzi umwe, une vana vakatendeka, vasingapiwi mhosva yebongozozo, kana kusateerera.

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

⁷Nekuti mutariri unofanira kuva usina chaangapomerwa semuchengeti weimba yaMwari; asingaiti kuda kwake, asingakurumidzi kutsamwa, asingadi waini, asingarwi, asingakariri fuma inonyangadza;

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;

⁸asi unofarira kugamuchira vaenzi, unoda zvinhu zvakanaka, wakasvunura, wakarurama, mutsvene, unozvidzora,

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

⁹unobatisisa shoko rakatendeka sezvaakadzidziswa, kuti agone kukurudzira nedzidziso mhenyu, nekupwisa vakakavari.

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;

¹⁰Nekuti vazhinji varipo vasingateereri, vanotaura zvisina maturo nevanyepedzeri, zvikuru avo vekudzingiswa,

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

¹¹miromo yavo inofanira kudzivirwa; vanopidigura dzimba dzose, vachidzidzisa zvinhu zvavasingafaniri nekuda kwefuma yakaipa.

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

¹²Mumwe wavo muporofita wekwavo, wakati: VaKrete vagara vari varevi venhema, zvikara zvakaipa, simbe dzinokara.

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

¹³Uchapupu uhwu ndehwechokwadi. Nekuda kwechikonzero ichi uvatsiure zvikuru, kuti vagwinye parutendo.

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

¹⁴vasingateereri ngano dzevaJudha, nemirairo yevanhu vachizvifuratidza kuchokwadi.

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

¹⁵Kuvatsvene zvinhu zvose zvitsvene; asi kune vakasvibiswa vasingatendi hakuna chitsvene, asi kunyange kufunga kwavo nehana zvakasvibiswa.

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;

¹⁶Vanobvuma kuti vanoziva Mwari, asi pamabasa vanomuramba, zvavari vanyangadzi nevasingateereri, vasingabatsiri pabasa rose rakanaka.

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