Titus 1:12

Easy To Read Version

Even one of their own prophets (teachers) \{from Crete\} said, “Cretan people are always liars. They are evil animals and lazy people who do nothing but eat.”

Cross References

Acts 17:28

‘We live with him.\par We walk with him.\par We are with him.’\par

Acts 2:11

Crete and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews. Others are converts. {\cf2\super [22]} We are from these different countries. But we can hear these men in our own languages! We can all understand the great things they are saying about God.”

Acts 27:12

And that harbor (Safe Harbors) was not a good place for the ship to stay for the winter. So most of the men decided that the ship should leave there. The men hoped we could go to Phoenix. The ship could stay there for the winter. (Phoenix was a city on the island of Crete. It had a harbor that faced southwest and northwest.)

Acts 27:13

Then a good wind began to blow from the south. The men on the ship thought, “This is the wind we wanted, and now we have it!” So they pulled up the anchor. We sailed very close to the island of Crete.

Acts 27:7

We sailed slowly for many days. It was hard for us to reach the city of Cnidus because the wind was blowing against us. We could not go any farther that way. So we sailed by the south side of the island of Crete near Salmone.

Romans 16:18

People like that are not serving our Lord Christ. They are only doing things to please themselves. They use fancy talk and say nice things to fool the people that don’t know about evil.

Philippians 3:19

The way these people live is leading them to destruction. They don’t serve God. Those people live only to please themselves. They do shameful things, and they are proud of those things. They think only about earthly things.

1 Timothy 4:2

Those teachings come through people that tell lies and trick other people. Those bad people cannot see what is right and what is wrong. It is like their understanding was destroyed by a hot iron.

Titus 1:5

I left you in Crete so that you could finish doing the things that still needed to be done. And I also left you there so that you could choose men to be elders {\cf2\super [3]} in every town.

2 Peter 2:12

But these false teachers speak evil against things they don’t understand. These false teachers are like animals that do things without really thinking—like wild animals that are born to be caught and killed. And, like wild animals, these false teachers will be destroyed.

2 Peter 2:15

These false teachers left the right way and went the wrong way. They followed the same way that Balaam went. Balaam was the son of Beor. He loved being paid for doing wrong.