Titus 1

1 If any be without crime, the husband of one wife. having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly. 2 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre: 3 But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent: 4 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers. 5 For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision. 6 Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake. 7 One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies. 8 This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith: 9 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth. 10 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. 11 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate. 13 But speak thou the things that become sound doctrine: 14 That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience. 15 The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well: 16 That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.