The King James Version Bible

Titus 1:5-9

  1. For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

  2. If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

  3. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

  4. But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

  5. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.