4. to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!
5. For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;
6. if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--
7. for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;
8. but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, selfcontrolled,
9. holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;
10. for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers--especially they of the circumcision--
11. whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
12. A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'