# For this purpose

"This is the reason"

# I left you in Crete

"I told you to stay in Crete"

# that you might set in order things not yet complete

"so that you would finish arranging things that needed to be done"

# ordain elders

"appoint elders" or "designate elders"

# elders

In the early Christian churches, Christian elders gave spiritual leadership to the assemblies of believers.