Titus 1:12

One of them, a poet of their own nation, hath said, The Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, slothful gluttons.

Thomas Haweis 1795 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 ought to be muzzled, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of base gain.

13This testimony is true. For which cause rebuke them with severity, that they may be sound in the faith;

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Cross References

Acts 17:28for from him we derive life, and power of motion, and existence; as also some of your own poets have said, “For we are even his offspring.”

1 Timothy 4:2men who teach lies with hypocrisy; and have their own consciences cauterised;

2 Peter 2:15who forsaking the strait road are gone out of the way, following the path of Balaam the son of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity.

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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