Titus 1:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not. 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, once said, “Cretans have always been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons.”[a] 13 That testimony is true. Therefore, admonish them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,(A)
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- 1:12 Cretans…gluttons: quoted from Epimenides, a Cretan poet of the sixth century B.C.
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