6. if anyone is unreprovable, the husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of loose behaviour, or unruly.
7. For an overseer has to be unreprovable, as a managing one of Elohim, not self-pleasing, not wroth, not given to wine, no brawler, not greedy for filthy gain,
8. but kind to strangers, a lover of what is good, sensible, righteous, set-apart, self-controlled,
9. clinging to the trustworthy word, according to the teaching, in order to be able both to encourage by sound teaching, and to reprove those who oppose it.
10. For there are many unruly men, senseless talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
11. whose mouths have to be stopped, who upset entire households, teaching what they should not teach, for the sake of filthy gain.
12. One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”