The reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders in every town:

but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, self-controlled,

It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly.

But you must say the things that are consistent with sound teaching.

In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good,