Titus 1:5

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that, the things remaining undone, thou mightest completely set in order, and mightest establish, in every city, elders, as, I, with thee arranged:—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

4Unto Titus, my true child according to a common faith,—favour and peace, from God [our] Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

6If anyone is unaccusable, a husband of, one wife, having children that believe, who are not charged with riotous excess, nor insubordinate;

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 6:32so they became attendants before the habitation of the tent of meeting, with song, until Solomon built the house of Yahweh, in Jerusalem,—and they took their stand according to their prescribed manner over their work.

Isaiah 44:7Who then, like me, can call, and declare it, and order it, for me, Seeing that I appointed an age-abiding people,—Or things yet to be, and that shall come to pass, Let them declare on their part.

Acts 11:30Which thing they also did, sending it unto the Elders, through the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

Acts 27:7And, for a good many days sailing slowly, and getting with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us to get on, we sailed under the lee of Crete, over against Salmone;

Acts 27:21But, when they had been, long without food, then, Paul, standing in the midst of them, said—Ye ought, indeed, Sir! yielding to me, not to have sailed away from Crete, to get this damage and loss. …

1 Corinthians 14:40But let, all things, with comeliness, and by arrangement, be done.

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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