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5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should aset in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—  
6 if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, ahaving faithful children not accused of1 dissipation or insubordination.  
7 For a1 bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, anot given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,  
8 but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,
9 holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.

The Elders’ Task

10 For there are many insubordinate, both idle atalkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,  
11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, afor the sake of dishonest gain.  
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Titus 1:7

The bishop (ton episkopon). Same office as "elder" in Titus 1:5. "Elder is the title, oversight is the function" (B. Weiss).

As God's steward (wv qeou oikonomon). See I Corinthians 4:1 f. for Paul's idea of the bishop (elder) as God's steward (cf. I Corinthians 9:17; Colossians 1:25; Ephesians 3:2; I Timothy 1:4).

Not self-willed (mh auqadh). Old word (from autos, hdomai), self-pleasing, arrogant. In N.T. only here and II Peter 2:10.

Not soon angry (orgilon). Old adjective from orgh (anger). Here only in N.T. Vulgate, iracundum. For "brawler" and "striker" see I Timothy 3:2.

Not greedy of filthy lucre (aisxrokerdh). "Not greedy of shameful gain." Used of deacons in I Timothy 3:8, afilarguron used of elders in I Timothy 3:3.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Titus 1:7:

Acts 11:30
Acts 14:23
Acts 20:17
1 Timothy 3:2
1 Timothy 3:8
Titus 1:11
1 Peter 4:10
1 Peter 5:2
2 Peter 2:10

 

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