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Titus 1:5 KJV
Titus · chapter 1 · verse 5
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:Titus 1:5 · King James Version
Titus 1:5 in context
3But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
4To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
5For 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:
6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
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- appointeddiatassōto arrange, appoint, ordain, prescribe, give orderG1299 →
- wantingleipōto leave, leave behind, forsake, to be left behind, to lag, be inferior, to be destitute…G3007 →
- ordainkathistēmito set, place, put, to set one over a thing , to appoint one to administer an office, to…G2525 →
- elderspresbyteroselder, of age,, the elder of two people, advanced in life, an elder, a senior…G4245 →
- causecharinin favour of, for the pleasure of, for, for the sake of, on this account, for this causeG5484 →
- CretekrētēCrete = " fleshy" , the largest and most fertile island of the Mediterranean…G2914 →
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Here is the end expressed, I. More generally: For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldst set in order the things that are wanting. This was the business of evangelists (in which office Titus was), to water where the apostles had planted (Co1 3:6), furthering and finishing what they had begun;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary