I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.

or steal from them, but to show such perfect good faith as to do credit to the teaching about God our Savior, by everything they do.

He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,