^{5 Ref} For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

^{6 Ref} if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

^{7 Ref} for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

^{8 Ref} but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

^{9 Ref} holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;