Titus 1:11

The mouth of these ought to be stopped: they corrupt many families; and they teach what they ought not, for the sake of base gains.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

In Context

10For many are unsubmissive, and their discourses vain; and they mislead the minds of people, especially such as are of the circumcision.

12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always mendacious, evil beasts, idle bellies.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:13Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows, under the disguise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

John 10:12But a hireling, who is not the shepherd, and to whom the sheep do not belong, when he seeth the wolf coming, leaveth the flock, and fleeth; and the wolf cometh, and teareth, and disperseth the flock.

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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