Titus 1:10-16

¹⁰ For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.^{[a] 11} They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. ¹² One of the Cretans,^[b] a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”^{[c] 13} This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, ¹⁴ not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. ¹⁵ To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. ¹⁶ They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Footnotes

1. Titus 1:10 Or especially those of the circumcision
2. Titus 1:12 Greek One of them
3. Titus 1:12 Probably from Epimenides of Crete