Order out of chaos on Crete — sound doctrine adorned with good works.
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his ______ he saved us."
Titus was Paul's fixer — dispatched to Corinth to calm a crisis, then to Crete to 'set in order the things that are wanting.' The hard assignments had his name on them.
Paul quotes a Cretan poet calling Cretans 'alway liars' — and adds, 'This witness is true.' Scripture contains exactly one certified philosophical burn from Epimenides.
Titus never appears in Acts — everything we know about him comes from Paul's letters, where he's called 'mine own son after the common faith.'
For a letter about good works, its center is pure grace: 'the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared... not by works of righteousness which we have done.'