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

⁵ I left you in Crete for this purpose, that you should correct the things that were defective, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave you orders. ⁶ A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience. ⁷ The overseer must be blameless as God's steward. He must not be self-willed, not prone to anger, not a brawler, and not violent (quarrelsome) (pugnacious), not greedy of dishonest gain. ⁸ but given to hospitality, as a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled; ⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to reprove (refute) (rebuke) those who contradict.

¹⁰ There are many unruly (rebellious) men, vain talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision. ¹¹ They must be stopped. Their mouths must be shut up, for they subvert entire households. They teach things that should not be taught, for the sake of dishonest gain. ¹² One of them, a prophet of their own, said: Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.

¹³ This testimony is true. For this cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

¹⁵ To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure. Both their mind and their conscience are defiled. ¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but deny him by their works! They are detestable, disobedient, and not approved for any good work.