“For this cause I left you in Crete, that you may arrange the things lacking, and may set elders down in every city, as I appointed to you,”— Titus 1:5 (LSV)
2on hope of continuous life, which God, who does not lie, promised before times of ages
3(and He revealed His word in [His] own times), in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Savior,
4to Titus—true child according to a common faith: Grace, [[kindness,]] peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior!
5For this cause I left you in Crete, that you may arrange the things lacking, and may set elders down in every city, as I appointed to you,
6if anyone is blameless, a husband of one wife, having believing children, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate—
7for it is required of the overseer to be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleased, nor prone to anger, not given to wine, not an abuser, not given to shameful gain,
8but a lover of strangers, a lover of [the] good, sober-minded, righteous, holy, self-controlled,