An elder must be blameless. He must be the husband of one wife and have children who are believers and who are not accused of having wild lifestyles or of being rebellious.

He must hold firmly to the faithful message as it has been taught, so that he will be able to give exhortation in such healthy teaching and correct those who speak against it.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

Said one from among them, a prophet, of their own! - Cretans! always false, mischievous wild-beasts, idle gluttons:

[And] this testimony is true. [So], for this reason you should rebuke them severely, so that they will be sound in the faith,

and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who reject the truth.

so that they may encourage the young women to tenderly love their husbands and their children,

to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.

Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us.

not pilfering, but showing all good faith so that they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every respect.

so that we would be justified [made free of the guilt of sin] by His [compassionate, undeserved] grace, and that we would be [acknowledged as acceptable to Him and] made heirs of eternal life [actually experiencing it] according to our hope (His guarantee).

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

After a first and second admonition, have nothing further to do with any one who will not be taught;

When I will send Artemas to thee, or Tychicus. Be diligence to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to winter there.

Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey, so that they will lack nothing.

But also our [people] must learn to engage in good deeds for necessary needs, so that they will not be unfruitful.