1 Paul, a slave of God and an emissary of Messiah Yeshua, for the faith of God’s chosen and the knowledge of truth that is in keeping with godliness,
2 based on the hope of eternal life. God—who cannot lie—promised this before the beginning of time.
3 But in His own time He made His message known, through a proclamation with which I was entrusted, by the command of God our Savior.
4 To Titus, a true child of our common faith: Grace and shalom from God the Father and Messiah Yeshua, our Savior!
5 The reason I left you in Crete was so that you would set in order the things that remain and appoint elders in every city as I directed you—
6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children of faith with no charge of wild living or rebellion.