Titus 1:5

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that remained, and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you.

Revised King James New Testament

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 own child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

6Elders must be blameless, the husband of one wife, whose children believe and are not accused of being profligate or unruly.

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Cross References

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

Acts 27:7And when we had sailed slowly for many days, and with difficulty had arrived off Cnidus, the wind would not allow us to go on, so we sailed under the lee of Crete, off Salmone;

Acts 27:21Then as they had been long without food, Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Men, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and incurred this damage 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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