Titus 1:1-9 ▼

1 Paul, the servant of God, and apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the elect of God, and the perfect knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

2 in the hope of eternal life, which God who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times,

3 and manifested in his own seasons his word by preaching, with which I am intrusted, according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

4 to Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour.

5 Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you;

6 if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.

7 For it behooves the bishop to be blameless, as the steward of God; not audacious, not irascible, not given to wine, not a controvertist, not fond of filthy lucre;

8 but hospitable, loving the good, prudent, righteous, holy, temperate;

9 holding that which is according to the teaching of the faithful word, in order that he may be able both to exhort with healthy teaching, and to convict the opposers.