◄ Titus 1:12 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said, “Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons.”

Contemporary English Version
It is like one of their own prophets once said, "The people of Crete always tell lies. They are greedy and lazy like wild animals."

New American Bible
One of them, a prophet of their own, once said, “Cretans have always been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

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Acts 17:28 For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.

liars.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,

2 Peter 2:12,15 But these men, as irrational beasts, naturally tending to the snare and to destruction, blaspheming those things which they know not, shall perish in their corruption: . . .

Jude 1:8-13 In like manner, these men also defile the flesh and despise dominion and blaspheme majesty. . . .

Context
Correcting False Teachers
…11Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. 12One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies. 13This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith:…
Cross References
Acts 2:11
Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

Acts 27:7
And when for many days we had sailed slowly and were scarce come over against Gnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed near Crete by Salmone.

Acts 27:12
And whereas it was not a commodious haven to winter in, the greatest part gave counsel to sail thence, if by any means they might reach Phenice, to winter there, which is a haven of Crete, looking towards the southwest and northwest.

Acts 27:13
And the south wind gently blowing, thinking that they had obtained their purpose, when they had loosed from Asson, they sailed close by Crete.

Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

Titus 1:5
For this cause I left thee in Crete: that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting and shouldest ordain priests in every city, as I also appointed thee:

Titus 1:11
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