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Titus 1:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

One of their very own prophets said, ‘Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.’

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through the hypocrisy  of liars whose consciences  are seared.


because such people do not serve our Lord Christ  but their own appetites.  , They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.


For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said, “For we are also his offspring.”


They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path  and have followed the path of Balaam,  the son of Bosor,  who loved the wages of wickedness


But these people, like irrational animals #– #creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed #– #slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.


Cretans and Arabs #– #we hear them declaring the magnificent acts of God in our own tongues.’


Sailing slowly for many days, we arrived with difficulty off Cnidus. Since the wind did not allow us to approach it, we sailed along the south side of Crete off Salmone.


Since the harbour was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to set sail from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbour on Crete  facing the southwest and northwest, and to winter there.


When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they had achieved their purpose. They weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete.


Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory  is in their shame; and they are focused on earthly things.


The reason I left you in Crete  was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders  in every town.





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