3. and has in due time revealed His word through preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior,
4. To Titus, my own son in the common faith:Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
5. For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city, as I commanded you:
6. any man who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children who are not accused of being wild or unruly.
7. For an overseer must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not easily angered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,
8. but hospitable, a lover of what is good, self-controlled, just, holy, temperate,