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10 For gar there are eimi many polys rebellious people anypotaktos, senseless babblers mataiologos and kai deceivers phrenapatēs, especially malista those ho of ek the ho circumcision peritomē. 11 It is therefore necessary dei to muzzle epistomizō those hos who hostis are upsetting anatrepō entire holos households oikos by teaching didaskō what hos is not proper dei for charin shameful aischros gain kerdos. 12 One tis of ek them autos, their idios own autos prophet prophētēs, said legō, “ Cretans Krēs are always aei liars pseustēs, evil kakos beasts thērion, lazy argos gluttons gastēr.”

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10 For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved]. 11 They must be silenced, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching things they should not teach for the purpose of dishonest financial gain. 12 One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a [a]prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:12 Epimenides was a highly regarded sixth century b.c. poet and philosopher from Crete. His description of his own people had by this time become a proverb.