Titus 1:5
For this purpose I left you in Crete, that you might set in order things not yet complete and ordain elders in every city as I directed you.
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1 Chronicles 6:32They served by singing before the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem. They fulfilled their duties according to the instructions given to them.
Isaiah 44:7Who is like me? Let him announce it and explain to me 1 the events that occurred since I established my ancient people, and let them declare the events to come. 1
Acts 11:30They did this; they sent money to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 27:7When we had sailed slowly for many days and had finally arrived with difficulty near Cnidus, the wind no longer allowed us to go that way, so we sailed along the sheltered side of Crete, opposite Salmone.
Acts 27:21When they had gone long without food, then Paul stood up among the sailors and said, “Men, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, so as to get this injury and loss.
1 Corinthians 14:40But let all things be done properly and in order.
Matthew Henry on Titus 1:2-5
Titus Completed by Jeremiah Smith . This Epistle of Paul to Titus is much of the same nature with those to Timothy; both were converts of Paul, and his companions in labours and sufferings; both were in the office of evangelists, whose work was to water the churches planted by the apostles, and to set in order the things that were wanting in them: they were vice-apostles, as it were, working the work of the Lord, as they did, and mostly under their direction, though not despotic and arbitrary, but with the… Read the whole commentary →