English Translation of the Bible
also called Mace New Testament
1729 by Daniel Mace
Tit 1:1 Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to declare the faith which recommends men to the divine favour, and to convince them of that truth, which leads to piety,
Tit 1:2 and gives the expectation of eternal life, which the God of veracity promised so many ages ago;
Tit 1:3 and has in due time manifested by the preaching of his word, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our saviour:
Tit 1:4 TO Titus my own convert to the common faith: grace and peace from God the father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour.
Tit 1:5 I left you in Crete, to regulate what was amiss, and to ordain pastors in every city, as I had appointed you,
Tit 1:6 to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.
Tit 1:7 for a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not morose, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not desirous of unlawful gain.
Tit 1:8 but a lover of hospitality, humane, prudent, just, holy, temperate;
Tit 1:9 attach'd to the truth, that has been taught him, that he may be able to teach others sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.
Tit 1:10 For there are many, especially among the Jews, who are obstinate, vain talkers and deceivers;
Tit 1:11 who ought to be curb'd, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for sordid lucre.
Tit 1:12 one of their own prophets said, "the Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."
Tit 1:13 the charge is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they maybe sound in the faith;
Tit 1:14 not doating on Jewish Fables, and the tenets of men, that deviate from the truth.
Tit 1:15 to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted.
Tit 1:16 they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.
Tit 2:1 As for you, teach nothing
Tit 2:2 but what is agreeable to sound doctrine: advise the aged to be prudent, grave, temperate, sound in faith,
Tit 2:3 in charity, in patience: the aged women likewise, to behave with sanctity of manners, not false accusers, not given to tipling,
Tit 2:4 but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,
Tit 2:5 to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, good oeconimists, beneficent, submissive to their husbands,
Tit 2:6 that the word of God may not be blasphemed. the young men likewise exhort to be modest.
Tit 2:7 In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,
Tit 2:8 gravity; let your doctrine be sound and inoffensive, that your opponents may be ashamed, and have nothing that is ill to say of us.
Tit 2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, to be
Tit 2:10 entirely obsequious without grumbling. not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.
Tit 2:11 For the divine savour has display'd its salutary effects to all mankind:
Tit 2:12 teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;
Tit 2:13 in expectation of that desirable happiness, the glorious appearance of the supreme God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ,
Tit 2:14 who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and qualify us to be his peculiar people, passionately affected to virtue.
Tit 2:15 these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.
Tit 3:1 Admonish them to be subject to princes and to magistrates, to obey their orders, and to exert their virtue and loyalty upon all occasions.
Tit 3:2 to speak evil of no man. to avoid contention, to be moderate and entirely inoffensive to all men.
Tit 3:3 for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.
Tit 3:4 but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind,
Tit 3:5 he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew,
Tit 3:6 by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit, thro' Jesus Christ our saviour:
Tit 3:7 that being justified by his favour, we should have the inheritance of eternal life, according to our hopes.
Tit 3:8 This is a secure rule, and what I would have you constantly maintain, that they who have believed in God, should take care to be examples of virtue, for that is commendable and useful to mankind.
Tit 3:9 but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Tit 3:10 A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, avoid:
Tit 3:11 it being plain that such a person is perverted, and knows in his own conscience that his tenets are false.
Tit 3:12 When I shall send you Artemas, or Tychicus, endeavour to meet me at Nicopolis: for I have determined to winter there.
Tit 3:13 dispatch Zenas the lawyer, and Apollos, and take care that nothing be wanting to their journey.
Tit 3:14 Let our brethren too learn some honest profession to supply their occasions, that they may not be destitute of an income.
Tit 3:15 All that are with me salute you. salute our christian friends. grace be with you all. AMEN.
