Titus 1:12

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Majority Standard Bible

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

11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.

13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith

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Cross References

Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

1 Timothy 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

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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