Titus 1:5–13

5 sFor this cause left I thee in tCrete, that uthou shouldest set in order the things that are ||vwanting, and wordain xelders in every city, as I had yappointed thee: 6 zIf any be ablameless, the husband of one wife, bhaving faithful children not accused of criot or dunruly. 7 For ea bishop must be ablameless, as fthe steward of God; not gselfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; 8 But a lover of hospitality, ha lover of ||good men, isober, just, holy, temperate; 9 kHolding fast lthe faithful word ||mas he hath been taught, nthat he may be able by osound doctrine both to exhort and to pconvince the gainsayers. 10 For there are many dunruly and qvain talkers and rdeceivers, specially sthey of the circumcision: 11 Whose mouths must be stopped, twho subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, ufor filthy lucre’s sake. 12 vOne of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The wCretians are alway liars, evil beasts, xslow bellies. 13 This witness is true. Wherefore yrebuke them zsharply, that they amay be sound in the faith;