Titus 1:12
By one of their own number, by a prophet of their own, it has been said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons."
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11for they upset whole households and, for filthy lucre’s sake, teach what they ought not to teach.
13This testimony is true. So rebuke them sharply,
Cross References
Acts 17:28"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "‘For we also are his offspring.’
1 Timothy 4:2speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,
2 Peter 2:15They have forsaken the right way; they have lost their way, and followed the road of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrong-doing.
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 →