3. which, at the proper time, he has manifested by his Word, in the preaching that has been entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior;
4. to Titus, beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Savior.
5. For this reason, I left you behind in Crete: so that those things which are lacking, you would correct, and so that you would ordain, throughout the communities, priests, (just as I also ordained you)
6. if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination.
7. And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,
8. but instead: hospitable, kind, sober, just, holy, chaste,
9. embracing faithful speech which is in agreement with doctrine, so that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to argue against those who contradict.