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Titus 1:12

10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

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

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
KJV
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
WEB
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
ASV
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.
DARBY
One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.
BLB
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans [are] always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
ÅB
En av dem, deres egen profet, har sagt: Kreterne er alltid løgnere, onde dyr, late buker.
OTB
En av deres egne profeter har sagt: «Kreterne er alltid løgnere, onde villdyr, late buker.»
B1930
En av dem, deres egen profet, har sagt: Kreterne er alltid løgnere, onde dyr, late buker.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Romans 16:18

    For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

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  • 1 Timothy 4:2

    Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

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  • Acts 17:28

    For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

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  • 2 Peter 2:15

    Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

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  • Jude 1:8–13

    Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

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  • 2 Peter 2:12

    But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

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  • Acts 2:11

    Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

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