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For There Are Many Deceivers Teaching Falsehood For Personal Gain

10 For there are indeed many rebellious ones, worthless-talkers[a], and deceivers— especially the ones from the circumcision— 11 whom it-is-necessary to silence, who are overturning whole households, teaching things which they ought not to teach for the sake of shameful gain. 12 One of them, their own prophet[b], said “Cretans are always liars[c], evil beasts, lazy gluttons”.

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:10 That is, ones talking of worthless, futile, vain, pointless things.
  2. Titus 1:12 Paul quotes Epimenides, a Cretan poet/philosopher born in 659 b.c.
  3. Titus 1:12 The Cretans were notorious for lying.

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