Titus 1:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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) 14 instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and regulations of people who have repudiated the truth.(B)
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- 1:12 Cretans…gluttons: quoted from Epimenides, a Cretan poet of the sixth century B.C.
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