2. based on the hope of eternal life. God—who cannot lie—promised this before the beginning of time.
3. But in His own time He made His message known, through a proclamation with which I was entrusted, by the command of God our Savior.
4. To Titus, a true child of our common faith: Grace and shalom from God the Father and Messiah Yeshua, our Savior!
5. The reason I left you in Crete was so that you would set in order the things that remain and appoint elders in every city as I directed you—
6. if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children of faith with no charge of wild living or rebellion.
7. For the overseer must be blameless as God’s administrator—not arrogant, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain.
8. Rather he must be hospitable, loving what is good, self-controlled, upright, devout, disciplined.
9. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message in keeping with the teaching, so he can both encourage by instruction that is sound and convict those who speak against it.
10. For there are many who are rebellious, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those from the circumcision.
11. They must be silenced—those who upset entire households by teaching what they should not, for the sake of dishonest gain.