Titus 1:5-9 ▼

5 For this cause I left you in Crete, that you may arrange the things lacking, and may set elders down in every city, as I appointed to you,

6 if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate—

7 for it is required of the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor prone to anger, not given to wine, not an abuser, not given to shameful gain,

8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of [the] good, sober-minded, righteous, holy, self-controlled,

9 holding—according to the teaching—to the steadfast word, that he may also be able to exhort in the sound teaching, and to convict the deniers;