The Biblical Qualifications of an Elder, Part II: Titus 1:5-9

 The qualifications in Titus are a summary of that in 1 Timothy, but they provide for us clarifications as well as additional examples of what a mature Christian looks like.

5 Τούτου χάριν ⸀ἀπέλιπόν σε ἐν Κρήτῃ,* ἵνα τὰ λείποντα ⸁ἐπιδιορθώσῃ καὶ καταστήσῃς κατὰ πόλιν πρεσβυτέρους, ὡς ἐγώ σοι διεταξάμην, 6 εἴ τίς ἐστιν ἀνέγκλητος, μιᾶς γυναικὸς ἀνήρ, τέκνα ἔχων πιστά, μὴ ἐν κατηγορίᾳ ἀσωτίας ἢ ἀνυπότακτα.* 7 δεῖ γὰρ τὸν ἐπίσκοπον ἀνέγκλητον εἶναι ὡς θεοῦ οἰκονόμον,* μὴ αὐθάδη, μὴ ὀργίλον,* μὴ πάροινον, μὴ πλήκτην, μὴ αἰσχροκερδῆ, 8 ἀλλὰ φιλόξενον φιλάγαθον σώφρονα δίκαιον ὅσιον ἐγκρατῆ,* 9 ἀντεχόμενον τοῦ κατὰ τὴν διδαχὴν πιστοῦ λόγου, ἵνα δυνατὸς ᾖ καὶ παρακαλεῖν ⸂ἐν τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ τῇ ὑγιαινούσῃ⸃ καὶ τοὺς ἀντιλέγοντας ἐλέγχειν⸆.* 

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you might set in order what remains incomplete and install elders corresponding to the church in that city, as I ordered you. If anyone is of such a character that no one can make an accusation of sin and have it stick, a man of one woman, having loyal children in his household, children who are not accused of having lived in a depraved manner or are rebellious toward their authorities and yet remain in good standing within his household (because the ecclesiastical governor must be a person who is not accused of any sin [including that of the children under his household] that can stick to him in order to be a manager of God's house), not someone who decides things for the church unilaterally, not someone who is easily angered over personal offenses, not someone who tends to drink too much, not someone who uses intimidation to get his way, not one who doesn't mind getting money in dishonest ways, but one who houses missionaries he does not know, a lover of always doing what is good and noble, being ruled by self-control, judging others words and matters fairly and without partiality, seeking first and foremost to be pleasing to God over family and peers, having his emotions under control rather than being controlled by them, fanatically devoted to the teaching of the faithful Word in such a way that he is able to exhort through sound teaching and convincingly refute those who contradict it.