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# Titus 1

Titus 1 is chapter 1 of 3 in the Letter to Titus. Here are all 16 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> What kind of men he is to ordain priests. Some men are to be sharply rebuked.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Titus 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Paul, a servant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in accord with the faith of God’s elect and in acknowledgment of the truth which is accompanied by piety,
2. in the hope of the eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before the ages of time,
3. which, at the proper time, he has manifested by his Word, in the preaching that has been entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior;
4. to Titus, beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Savior.
5. For this reason, I left you behind in Crete: so that those things which are lacking, you would correct, and so that you would ordain, throughout the communities, priests, (just as I also ordained you)
6. if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination.
7. And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,
8. but instead: hospitable, kind, sober, just, holy, chaste,
9. embracing faithful speech which is in agreement with doctrine, so that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to argue against those who contradict.
10. For there are, indeed, many who are disobedient, who speak empty words, and who deceive, especially those who are of the circumcision.
11. These must be reproved, for they subvert entire houses, teaching things which should not be taught, for the favor of shameful gain.
12. A certain one of these, a prophet of their own kind, said: “The Cretans are ever liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
13. This testimony is true. Because of this, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,
14. not paying attention to Jewish fables, nor to the rules of men who have turned themselves away from the truth.
15. All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted.
16. They claim that they know God. But, by their own works, they deny him, since they are abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate, toward every good work.

## Titus 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Paulus servus Dei, Apostolus autem Jesu Christi secundum fidem electorum Dei, et agnitionem veritatis, quæ secundum pietatem est
2. in spem vitæ æternæ, quam promisit qui non mentitur, Deus, ante tempora sæcularia:
3. manifestavit autem temporibus suis verbum suum in prædicatione, quæ credita est mihi secundum præceptum Salvatoris nostri Dei:
4. Tito dilecto filio secundum communem fidem, gratia, et pax a Deo Patre, et Christo Jesu Salvatore nostro.
5. Hujus rei gratia reliqui te Cretæ, ut ea quæ desunt, corrigas, et constituas per civitates presbyteros, sicut et ego disposui tibi,
6. si quis sine crimine est, unius uxoris vir, filios habens fideles, non in accusatione luxuriæ, aut non subditos.
7. Oportet enim episcopum sine crimine esse, sicut Dei dispensatorem: non superbum, non iracundum, non vinolentum, non percussorem, non turpis lucri cupidum:
8. sed hospitalem, benignum, sobrium, justum, sanctum, continentem,
9. amplectentem eum, qui secundum doctrinam est, fidelem sermonem: ut potens sit exhortari in doctrina sana, et eos qui contradicunt, arguere.
10. Sunt enim multi etiam inobedientes, vaniloqui, et seductores: maxime qui de circumcisione sunt:
11. quos oportet redargui: qui universas domos subvertunt, docentes quæ non oportet, turpis lucri gratia.
12. Dixit quidam ex illis, proprius ipsorum propheta: Cretenses semper mendaces, malæ bestiæ, ventres pigri.
13. Testimonium hoc verum est. Quam ob causam increpa illos dure, ut sani sint in fide,
14. non intendentes judaicis fabulis, et mandatis hominum, aversantium se a veritate.
15. Omnia munda mundis: coinquinatis autem et infidelibus, nihil est mundum, sed inquinatæ sunt eorum et mens et conscientia.
16. Confitentur se nosse Deum, factis autem negant: cum sint abominati, et incredibiles, et ad omne opus bonum reprobi.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1577: Who Can Receive This Sacrament? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2518: Purification of the Heart ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Nov 13, 2028 (computed): St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin — First Reading, Titus 1:1-9

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).