Titus 1:12

One of their very own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons.”

Text-Critical English NT

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

11They must be silenced, because they are ruining entire households by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the sake of sordid gain.

13This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may become sound in the faith,

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Cross References

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

1 Timothy 4:2being influenced by the hypocrisy of liars who are seared in their own consciences.

2 Peter 2:15They have abandoned the straight path and gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, 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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