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# Titus 3

Titus 3 is chapter 3 of 3 in the Letter to Titus. Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Other instructions and directions for life and doctrine.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Titus 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Admonish them to be subordinate to the rulers and authorities, to obey their dictates, to be prepared for every good work,
2. to speak evil of no one, not to be litigious, but to be reserved, displaying all meekness toward all men.
3. For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.
4. But then the kindness and humanity of God our Savior appeared.
5. And he saved us, not by works of justice that we had done, but, in accord with his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,
6. whom he has poured out upon us in abundance, through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7. so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
8. This is a faithful saying. And I want you to confirm these things, so that those who believe in God may take care to excel in good works. These things are good and useful to men.
9. But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, as well as arguments against the law. For these are useless and empty.
10. Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,
11. knowing that one who is like this has been subverted, and that he offends; for he has been condemned by his own judgment.
12. When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, hurry to return to me at Nicopolis. For I have decided to winter there.
13. Send Zenas the lawyer and Apollo ahead with care, and let nothing be lacking to them.
14. But let our men also learn to excel in good works pertaining to the necessities of life, so that they may not be unfruitful.
15. All those who are with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. May the grace of God be with you all. Amen.

## Titus 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Admone illos principibus, et potestatibus subditos esse, dicto obedire, ad omne opus bonum paratos esse:
2. neminem blasphemare, non litigiosos esse, sed modestos, omnem ostendentes mansuetudinem ad omnes homines.
3. Eramus enim aliquando et nos insipientes, increduli, errantes, servientes desideriis, et voluptatibus variis, in malitia et invidia agentes, odibiles, odientes invicem.
4. Cum autem benignitas et humanitas apparuit Salvatoris nostri Dei,
5. non ex operibus justitiæ, quæ fecimus nos, sed secundum suam misericordiam salvos nos fecit per lavacrum regenerationis et renovationis Spiritus Sancti,
6. quem effudit in nos abunde per Jesum Christum Salvatorem nostrum:
7. ut justificati gratia ipsius, hæredes simus secundum spem vitæ æternæ.
8. Fidelis sermo est: et de his volo te confirmare: ut curent bonis operibus præesse qui credunt Deo. Hæc sunt bona, et utilia hominibus.
9. Stultas autem quæstiones, et genealogias, et contentiones, et pugnas legis devita: sunt enim inutiles, et vanæ.
10. Hæreticum hominem post unam et secundam correptionem devita:
11. sciens quia subversus est, qui ejusmodi est, et delinquit, cum sit proprio judicio condemnatus.
12. Cum misero ad te Artemam, aut Tychicum, festina ad me venire Nicopolim: ibi enim statui hiemare.
13. Zenam legisperitum et Apollo sollicite præmitte, ut nihil illis desit.
14. Discant autem et nostri bonis operibus præesse ad usus necessarios: ut non sint infructuosi.
15. Salutant te qui mecum sunt omnes: saluta eos qui nos amant in fide. Gratia Dei cum omnibus vobis. Amen.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1215: What is This Sacrament Called? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1817: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 11: “By his own judgment” … Other offenders are judged, and cast out of the church, by the sentence of the pastors of the same church. Heretics, more unhappy, run out of the church of their own accord, and by doing so, give judgment and sentence against their own souls.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Wed, Nov 11, 2026: St. Martin of Tours, Bishop — First Reading, Titus 3:1-7
- Wed, Nov 15, 2028 (computed): Wednesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Titus 3:1-7

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). 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).