And the things thou hast heard of me in the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, such as shall be competent to instruct others also.

For this cause I left thee in Crete, that thou mightest go on to set right what remained unordered, and establish elders in each city, as I had ordered thee:

Neither

and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,

for he who greets him partakes in his wicked works.

And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues:

Keep

Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

Wherefore I witness to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all,

General references

And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and they shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before Jehovah; and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites.

Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;