5. The reason I left you in Crete was that you should straighten out what was left undone, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you:
6. if anyone is unreprovable, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of loose behaviour, or unruly.
7. For an overseer has to be unreprovable, as a managing one of Elohim, not self-pleasing, not wroth, not given to wine, no brawler, not greedy for filthy gain,
8. but kind to strangers, a lover of what is good, sensible, righteous, set-apart, self-controlled,
9. clinging to the trustworthy word, according to the teaching, in order to be able both to encourage by sound teaching, and to reprove those who oppose it.