First Reading Titus 1:1-9
1Paul, a servant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in accord with the faith of God’s elect and in acknowledgment of the truth which is accompanied by piety,
2in the hope of the eternal life that God, who does not lie, promised before the ages of time,
3which, at the proper time, he has manifested by his Word, in the preaching that has been entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior;
4to Titus, beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Savior.
5For this reason, I left you behind in Crete: so that those things which are lacking, you would correct, and so that you would ordain, throughout the communities, priests, (just as I also ordained you)
6if such a man is without offense, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of self-indulgence, nor of insubordination.
7And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,
8but instead: hospitable, kind, sober, just, holy, chaste,
9embracing faithful speech which is in agreement with doctrine, so that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to argue against those who contradict.
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