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For this cause left I youi in Crete [fleshy], that youi should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed youi:

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God-The Father; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy profit;

But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers.