| Former half | Relation | Latter half |
| 1 Salutation (1:1-4) to Titus, my true child in our common faith: grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our savior. (1:4) | Salutation | 5 Final messages and benediction (3:12-15) Grace be with all of you. (3:15) |
| 2 Titus in Crete (1:5-16_2:1) For there are also many rebels, idle talkers and deceivers, especially the Jewish Christians. (1:10) | Meaningless objects | 4 Maintain good deeds (2:11-3:11) Avoid foolish arguments, genealogies, rivalries, and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and futile. (3:9) |
| 2 Titus in Crete (1:5-16_2:1) 1:7 For a bishop as God's steward must be blameless, not arrogant, not irritable, not a drunkard, not aggressive, not greedy for sordid gain, 1:8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, holy, and self-controlled, 1:9 holding fast to the true message as taught (1:7-9) | Suitable person | 4 Maintain good deeds (2:11-3:11) 3:1 Remind them to be under the control of magistrates and authorities, to be obedient, to be open to every good enterprise. 3:2 They are to slander no one, to be peaceable, considerate, exercising all graciousness toward everyone. (3:1-2) |
| Former half | Relation | Latter half |
| 1 Salutation (1:1-4) who indeed at the proper time revealed his word in the proclamation with which I was entrusted by the command of God our savior, (1:3) | Proclaiming doctrine of God our savior | 3 Teach sound doctrine (2:2-10) exhibiting complete good faith, so as to adorn the doctrine of God our savior in every way. (2:10) |
| Former half | Relation | Latter half |
| 3 Teach sound doctrine (2:2-10) showing yourself as a model of good deeds in every respect, (2:7) | Do good deeds | 5 Final messages and benediction (3:12-15) But let our people, too, learn to devote themselves to good works to supply urgent needs, (3:14) |