One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,