Titus 1:5-14

5For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:1

6If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or rebellion. 7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money; 8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober minded, just, holy, temperate;2 9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convict those who contradict.3 10For there are many rebellious and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision: 11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain. 12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons. 13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; 14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.