4. To Titus, my true son in our common faith:Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
5. The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.
6. An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
7. Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless – not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.