The main theme of this brief letter is the connection between right belief and right behavior (see Fee 2011, 173). Paul’s instructions throughout the letter focus on the importance of sound teaching, which promotes right belief and, consequently, good deeds. For example, the qualifications for elders in Titus 1:5–9 require both right behavior and right belief. Elders should also be able to offer “sound instruction” and counter the false teachers, who represent wrong belief and wrong behavior (Titus