Titus 1:5-16 - Instructions To Titus In Crete

⁵ For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee: ⁶ If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly. ⁷ For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain. ⁸ But hospitable, a lover of good, of sound mind, just, holy, holding firm; ⁹ Holding firmly the faithful word according to instruction, that he may be able also to beseech in sound doctrine, and to refute those opposing.

¹⁰ For many also are disorderly, vain talkers and infatuates, especially they of the circumcision: ¹¹ Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain. ¹² A certain of them said, their own prophet, The Cretians always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.

¹³ This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them severely, that they may be sound in the faith; ¹⁴ Not holding to Jewish fictions, and commands of men, having turned away from the truth.

¹⁵ All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled. ¹⁶ They confess to know God; and in works they deny, being abominable, and disobedient, and to every good work not tried.