2 In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the ages began;
3 But has in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Savior;
4 To Titus, my own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
5 For this cause I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you:
6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of rebellion or unruly.
7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not violent, not given to dishonest gain;
8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good, sensible, just, holy, temperate;