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Titus 1:12

Titus chapter 1 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

Context

v.11whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

v.12This passage

v.13This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Acts 2:11

    Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.

  • 1 Timothy 4:2

    through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

  • 2 Peter 2:15

    forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the hire of wrong-doing;

  • 2 Peter 2:12

    But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

  • Romans 16:18

    For they that are such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

  • Jude 1:8

    Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.