5 The elders who are among you I exhort, who am also an elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

² feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight of them, not by constraint but willingly, not for filthy lucre but out of a ready mind,

³ neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but by being examples to the flock.

⁴ And when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

⁵ For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

⁶ if any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly.

⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God, not selfwilled, not quick to anger, not given to wine, not violent, not given to filthy lucre;

⁸ but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate,

⁹ holding fast the faithful Word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.