For this purpose I left thee behind me at Crete, that thou mightest direct the regulations which remained to be executed, and that thou shouldest appoint presbyters in every city, as I charged thee to do:

For a bishop ought to be irreproachable, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not irritable, not addicted to wine, not quarrelsome, not greedy of filthy lucre;

For there are many disorderly persons vainly talkative, and under a spirit of delusion, especially some of the circumcised;

whose mouths ought to be muzzled, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

This testimony is true. For which cause rebuke them with severity, that they may be sound in the faith;

For the grace of God which leads to salvation hath appeared unto all men,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

REMIND them to be subject to princes and those invested with authority, to obey magistrates, to be ready for every good work,

For we ourselves also in time past were thoughtless, disobedient, erroneous, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

not for works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the laver of regeneration, and by renovation of the Holy Spirit;

But foolish disquisitions, and genealogies, and disputes, and contentions about the law avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, hasten to come to me unto Nicopolis: for there I have determined to pass the winter.

Send forward diligently Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, that nothing may be wanting for them.

And let those who belong to us learn also to be pre-eminent in good works for all necessary calls, that they be not without fruits.