5. I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you;
6. if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behaviour.
7. For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
8. but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
9. holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
10. For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
11. whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
12. One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
13. This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,