6if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.


In Context

3 but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

4 to Titus, my own child according to the faith common to us: Grace and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

5 For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

6 if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.

7 For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

8 but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

Titus 1:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:6An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:6If any be without crime, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:6if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:6if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or disorderly.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:6if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.