Titus 1:5-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

⁶ If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.

⁷ For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

⁸ But given to hospitality, gentle, sober, just, holy, continent:

⁹ Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine, and to convince the gainsayers.

¹⁰ For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:

¹¹ Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹² One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

¹³ This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

¹⁴ Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men, who turn themselves away from the truth.