CLV(i)
7 for the supervisor must be unimpeachable as an administrator of God, not given to self-gratification, not irritable, no toper, not quarrelsome, not avaricious;"
8 but hospitable, fond of that which is good, sane, just, benign, self-controlled;"
9 upholding the faithful word according to the teaching, that he may be able to entreat with sound teaching as well as to expose those who contradict."
10 For many are insubordinate, vain praters and imposters, especially those of the Circumcision,
11 who must be gagged, who are subverting whole households, teaching what they must not, on behalf of sordid gain."
12 One of them, their own prophet, said: "Cretans are ever liars, evil wild beasts, idle bellies."
13 This testimony is true. For which cause be exposing them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
14 not heeding Jewish myths and precepts of men who are turning from the truth.
15 All, indeed, is clean to the clean, yet to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is clean, but their mind as well as conscience is defiled."
16 They are avowing an acquaintance with God, yet by their acts are denying it, being abominable and stubborn, and disqualified for every good act."