Elders are instructed to care for the people of God and to be vigilant in preventing false teachers and false doctrines from infiltrating their congregations.

For a bishop must be blameless; one that hath an oversight of the church of God, ought to be one whom none can truly tax with any scandalous sin.

10 янв. 2015 г. · In this verse, Paul changed from the term elder to “bishop.” The word bishop means overseer. “Bishop” is singular here and everywhere else in ...

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless. This shows that a bishop and an elder is the same; and the Syriac version here renders it, "an elder".

20 апр. 2023 г. · For he who oversees the Church of God must be beyond reproach, as befits a steward of God. He must not be obstinately self-willed; he must not be an angry man.

7 An elder is a manager of God's household, so he must live a blameless life. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered; he must not be a heavy drinker, violent ...

Paul stresses that elders, as overseers of God's flock, must be above reproach, displaying virtues such as self-control and a lack of contentiousness.

Titus 1:7-8 sets a high standard for the character of those who hold leadership roles within the early Christian church by embodying Christ's virtues.

The true safeguard, then, of the saints' well-being is an exercised conscience, in self-judgment before God, with dependence on Him.