^{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;

^{10 Ref} for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

^{11 Ref} whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

^{12 Ref} A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

^{13 Ref} this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

^{14 Ref} not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

^{15 Ref} all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience;

^{16 Ref} God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.