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21 lines
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# For this purpose
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"This is the reason"
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# I left you in Crete
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"I told you to stay in Crete"
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# that you might set in order things not yet complete
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"so that you would finish arranging things that needed to be done"
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# ordain elders
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"appoint elders" or "designate elders"
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# elders
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In the early Christian churches, Christian elders gave spiritual leadership to the assemblies of believers.
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