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Titus 1:5-8
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Qualifications for Elders

This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, [1] and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. For an overseer, [2] as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

Footnotes

[1] 1:6 Or a man of one woman
[2] 1:7 Or bishop; Greek episkopos

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