10 For there are many who are insubordinate, (A)empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of (B)the circumcision party.[a] 11 They must be silenced, since (C)they are upsetting whole families by teaching (D)for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. 12 (E)One of the Cretans,[b] a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:10 Or especially those of the circumcision
  2. Titus 1:12 Greek One of them
  3. Titus 1:12 Probably from Epimenides of Crete

10 For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 whom it is necessary to silence, whoever are ruining whole families by[a] teaching things which must not be taught for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 A certain one of them, one of their own prophets, has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:11 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“teaching”) which is understood as means