Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Titus

Produced by Martin Ward
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Titus
Third Edition 1913
R. F. Weymouth
001:001 Paul, a bondservant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ for building up the faith of God's own people and spreading a full knowledge of the truths of religion,
001:002 in hope of the Life of the Ages which God, who is never false to His word, promised before the commencement of the Ages.
001:003 And at the appointed time He clearly made known His Message in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour:
001:004 To Titus my own true child in our common faith. May grace and peace be granted to you from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
001:005 I have left you behind in Crete in order that you may set right the things which still require attention, and appoint Elders in every town, as I directed you to do;
001:006 wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.
001:007 For, as God's steward, a minister must be of blameless life, not over-fond of having his own way, not a man of a passionate temper nor a hard drinker, not given to blows nor greedy of gain,
001:008 but hospitable to strangers, a lover of goodness, sober-minded, upright, saintly, self-controlled;