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Titus 1:12
Titus 1:12 is verse 12 of Titus chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
This quote, also known as the Epimenides paradox, has been attributed to the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos.
King James Version
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
World English Bible
One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”
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Titus 1:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,
11 who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.
12 As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith
14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Acts 17:28‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
Romans 16:18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
1 Timothy 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
2 Peter 2:12These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.
2 Peter 2:15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
Jude 1:8Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
Jude 1:9But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Jude 1:10These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
Jude 1:11Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.
Jude 1:12These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
Jude 1:13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.