2 in expectation of everlasting life which Elohim, who does not lie, promised before times of old,
3 but in its own times has manifested His word through preaching, with which I was entrusted according to the command of Elohim our Saviour,
4 to Titus, a genuine child according to our common belief: Favour, compassion, peace from Elohim the Father and the Master יהושע Messiah our Saviour.
5 The reason I left you in Crete was that you should straighten out what was left undone, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you:
6 if anyone is unreprovable, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of loose behaviour, or unruly.
7 For an overseer has to be unreprovable, as a managing one of Elohim, not self-pleasing, not wroth, not given to wine, no brawler, not greedy for filthy gain,
8 but kind to strangers, a lover of what is good, sensible, righteous, set-apart, self-controlled,