7for 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;
8but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,
9holding -- 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;
10for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --
11whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre`s sake.
12A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said -- `Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!`
13this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
