Titus 1:7-16

CAB(i) 7 For a bishop must be unimpeachable, as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, 8 but hospitable, loving good, prudent, just, holy, temperate, 9 holding fast to the faithful word as he was taught, that he may be able to exhort by sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it. 10 For there are also many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 whom it is necessary to shut their mouths, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 There said a certain one of them, a prophet of their own, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons." 13 This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, 14 not giving heed to Jewish myths and to commands of men turning away from the truth. 15 All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.