Titus 1:12

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said: The Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

In Context

11whose mouths must be stopped: these subvert whole houses by teaching, for the sake of base gain, things which they ought not to teach.

13This testimony is true; wherefore rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,

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Cross References

Acts 17:28For in him we live, and move, and have our being: as also some of your own poets have said: For we his offspring are.

1 Timothy 4:2through the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their conscience,

2 Peter 2:15who have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Matthew Henry on Titus 1:7-16

The Qualifications of a Bishop; The Necessity of Sharp Reproof. ( a. d. 66.) 6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. 7 For 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; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort… Read the whole commentary →

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