10 For there are also many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from Judaism.[a] 11 It is necessary to silence them; they overthrow whole households by teaching what they shouldn’t in order to get money dishonestly. 12 One of their very own prophets said,

Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:10 Lit the circumcision
  2. Titus 1:12 This saying is from the Cretan poet Epimenides (6th century b.c.).

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