Titus 1:7-16 For a bishop should be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not a striker, not one who makes gain by base methods;

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁷ For a bishop should be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not prone to anger, not given to wine, not a striker, not one who makes gain by base methods; ⁸ but hospitable; a lover of good men, prudent, just, holy, temperate; ⁹ holding fast the true doctrine, as he has been taught; that he may be able, by wholesome teaching, both to exhort and to confute the gain-sayers. ¹⁰ For there are many unruly and foolish talked and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, ¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; who subvert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain. ¹² One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, "The Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy bodies." ¹³ This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them sharply, that they may be healthy in the faith- ¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and precepts of men who pervert the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure, all meats are pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving, nothing is pure; for both their understanding and conscience are polluted. ¹⁶ They profess to know God; but by works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and to every good work reprobate.