Titus 1:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

It was one of them, their very own prophet, who said, “Cretans are always liars, vicious brutes, lazy gluttons.”

Cross References

Acts 17:28

For ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we, too, are his offspring.’

Acts 2:11

Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.”

Acts 27:12

Since the harbor was not suitable for spending the winter, the majority was in favor of putting to sea from there on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, where they could spend the winter. It was a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest.

Acts 27:13

When a moderate south wind began to blow, they thought they could achieve their purpose; so they weighed anchor and began to sail past Crete, close to the shore.

Acts 27:7

We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind was against us, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

1 Timothy 4:2

through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

Titus 1:5

I left you behind in Crete for this reason, so that you should put in order what remained to be done and should appoint elders in every town, as I directed you:

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:15

They have left the straight road and have gone astray, following the road of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of doing wrong