Titus 1:12

It was a Cretan — one of their own teachers — who said: ‘Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers’; and his statement is true.

Twentieth Century 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 stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.

13Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the Faith,

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Cross References

Acts 17:28for in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets — ‘His offspring, too, are we.’

1 Timothy 4:2who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men’s consciences are seared,

2 Peter 2:15Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for 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 →

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