Titus 1:5

Therefore I left you in Crete, in order that you may set in order remaining things, and establish elders in every city, as I commanded you;

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

In Context

4to Titus, my beloved son according to the common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Saviour.

6if any one is irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of riot or incorrigible.

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Cross References

Acts 11:30and this they did, sending to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 27:7And sailing slowly during many days, and were come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not favoring us, we sailed under Crete, opposite Salmone;

Acts 27:21And there being much fasting, Paul standing in their midst, said, O men, truly it behooved you obeying me, not to depart from Crete, and incur this injury and loss.

1 Corinthians 14:40but let all things be done decently 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 →

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