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

⁵ I left you in Crete, to regulate what was amiss, and to ordain pastors in every city, as I had appointed you, ⁶ to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly. ⁷ for a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not morose, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not desirous of unlawful gain. ⁸ but a lover of hospitality, humane, prudent, just, holy, temperate; ⁹ attach'd to the truth, that has been taught him, that he may be able to teach others sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

¹⁰ For there are many, especially among the Jews, who are obstinate, vain talkers and deceivers; ¹¹ who ought to be curb'd, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for sordid lucre. ¹² one of their own prophets said, "the Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies."

¹³ the charge is true: wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they maybe sound in the faith; ¹⁴ not doating on Jewish Fables, and the tenets of men, that deviate from the truth.

¹⁵ to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted. ¹⁶ they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.