TITUS 1

Opskrif en seëngroet.

1 PAULUS, ’n dienskneg van God en ’n apostel van Jesus Christus, volgens die geloof van die tuitverkorenes van God en tdie kennis van die waarheid wat na die godsaligheid is,

2 in die hoop van die ewige lewe wat God, twat nie kan lieg nie, van tewigheid af beloof het,

3 en top die regte tyd sy woord bekend gemaak het deur die prediking wat aan my toevertrou is, tooreenkomstig die gebod van tGod, ons Verlosser — aan tTitus, my tware kind volgens die gemeenskaplike geloof:

4 Genade, barmhartigheid, vrede van God die Vader en die Here Jesus Christus, ons Verlosser!

Titus word belas met die bestuur van die gemeente van Kreta en met die bestryding van die valse leraars.

5  tOM hierdie rede het ek jou in Kreta agtergelaat, dat jy nog verder sou regmaak wat oorgebly het, en van stad tot stad touderlinge tsou aanstel soos ek jou beveel het —

6  tas iemand onberispelik is, die man van een vrou, gelowige kinders het wat nie beskuldig word van losbandigheid of tugteloos is nie.

7 Want ’n opsiener moet as ’n trentmeester van God onberispelik wees, nie eiesinnig, nie oplopend, geen drinker, geen vegter, geen vuilgewinsoeker nie;

8 maar gasvry, een wat die goeie liefhet, ingetoë, regverdig, heilig, een wat homself beheers;

9  teen wat vashou aan tdie betroubare woord wat volgens die leer is, sodat hy in staat kan wees om met die gesonde leer te vermaan sowel as om die teësprekers te weerlê.

10 Want daar is baie wat tugteloos is, wat onsin praat en verleiers is, veral die twat uit die besnydenis is;

11 hulle mond moet gestop word. Hulle keer hele huise onderstebo deur te leer wat nie betaam nie, tter wille van vuil wins.

12 Een uit hulle, hul eie profeet, het gesê: Die Kretense is altyd leuenaars, ongediertes, lui buike.

13 Hierdie getuienis is waar. Daarom tmoet jy hulle skerp bestraf, sodat thulle gesond in die geloof kan wees,

14 en thulle nie besig hou met tJoodse fabels en gebooie van mense wat van die waarheid afwyk nie.

15  tAlle dinge is rein vir die reines; vir die besoedeldes en ongelowiges egter is niks rein nie, maar hulle tverstand sowel as hulle gewete is besoedel.
16 Hulle bely dat hulle God ken, maar hulle tverloën Hom deur die werke, omdat hulle gruwelik en ongehoorsaam is en ongeskik vir elke goeie werk.

Titus 1

1  PAUL, A bond servant of God and an apostle (a special messenger) of Jesus Christ (the Messiah) to stimulate and promote the faith of God’s chosen ones and to lead them on to accurate discernment and recognition of and acquaintance with the Truth which belongs to and harmonizes with and tends to godliness,2  [Resting] in the hope of eternal life, [life] which the ever truthful God Who cannot deceive promised before the world or the ages of time began.3  And [now] in His own appointed time He has made manifest (made known) His Word and revealed it as His message through the preaching entrusted to me by command of God our Savior;4  To Titus, my true child according to a common (general) faith: Grace (favor and spiritual blessing) and [heart] peace from God the Father and the Lord Christ Jesus our Savior.5  For this reason I left you [behind] in Crete, that you might set right what was defective and finish what was left undone, and that you might appoint elders and set them over the churches (assemblies) in every city as I directed you.6  [These elders should be] men who are of unquestionable integrity and are irreproachable, the husband of [but] one wife, whose children are [well trained and are] believers, not open to the accusation of being loose in morals and conduct or unruly and disorderly.7  For the bishop (an overseer) as God’s steward must be blameless, not self-willed or arrogant or presumptuous; he must not be quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious (brawling, violent); he must not be grasping and greedy for filthy lucre (financial gain);8  But he must be hospitable (loving and a friend to believers, especially to strangers and foreigners); [he must be] a lover of goodness [of good people and good things], sober-minded (sensible, discreet), upright and fair-minded, a devout man and religiously correct, temperate and keeping himself in hand.9  He must hold fast to the sure and trustworthy Word of God as he was taught it, so that he may be able both to give stimulating instruction and encouragement in sound (wholesome) doctrine and to refute and convict those who contradict and oppose it [showing the wayward their error].10  For there are many disorderly and unruly men who are idle (vain, empty) and misleading talkers and self-deceivers and deceivers of others. [This is true] especially of those of the circumcision party [who have come over from Judaism].11  Their mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally distressing and subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage and disreputable gain.12  One of their [very] number, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, hurtful beasts, idle and lazy gluttons.13  And this account of them is [really] true. Because it is [true], rebuke them sharply [deal sternly, even severely with them], so that they may be sound in the faith and free from error,14  [And may show their soundness by] ceasing to give attention to Jewish myths and fables or to rules [laid down] by [mere] men who reject and turn their backs on the Truth.15  To the pure [in heart and conscience] all things are pure, but to the defiled and corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are defiled and polluted.16  They profess to know God [to recognize, perceive, and be acquainted with Him], but deny and disown and renounce Him by what they do; they are detestable and loathsome, unbelieving and disobedient and disloyal and rebellious, and [they are] unfit and worthless for good work (deed or enterprise) of any kind.