⁵For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

⁶If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.

⁷For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

⁸But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

⁹Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers.

¹⁰For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision.

¹¹Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

¹²One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

¹³This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith:

¹⁴Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth.

¹⁵All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

¹⁶They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.

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