Titus 1:12

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One of their own prophets has said, 'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons.'

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  • Acts 17:28 : 28 For in him we live and move and have our being, as some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 They will speak lies with hypocrisy, and their consciences will be seared as with a hot iron.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 These people, however, are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They speak abusively about things they do not understand, and in their destruction, they too will be destroyed.
  • 2 Pet 2:15 : 15 They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
  • Jude 1:8-9 : 8 In the same way, these people also, relying on their dreams, defile their flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme glorious beings. 9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, 'The Lord rebuke you!' 10 These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These are hidden reefs in your love feasts, feasting with you fearlessly, shepherding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted. 13 They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.
  • Acts 2:11 : 11 both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!

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    9He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who oppose it.

    10For there are many who are rebellious, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

    11They must be silenced because they are upsetting whole households by teaching things they should not for the sake of dishonest gain.

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    13This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply so that they may be sound in the faith,

    14not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and human commandments that turn away from the truth.

    15To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; rather, both their mind and conscience are defiled.

    16They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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    10These people speak abusively about what they do not understand, and what they do understand by instinct—like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.

    11Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, rushed headlong for profit into Balaam’s error, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

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    3For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

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    1But just as there were false prophets among the people, there will also be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

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    4For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    16These people are grumblers and complainers, living according to their own desires. Their mouths speak arrogant words, flattering others for their own advantage.

    17But you, beloved, remember the words that were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    18They said to you, 'In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.'

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    18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

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    29They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

    30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

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    17Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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    14They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children.

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    6They are the kind who creep into homes and capture weak-willed women who are burdened with sins and led astray by various desires.

    7Always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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    9But they will not get very far because their folly will be clear to everyone, just as the folly of Jannes and Jambres became evident.

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    11We hear that some among you are living idle lives, refusing to work and instead becoming busybodies.

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    11both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!

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    5You live in the midst of deceit, and because of deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.

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    13At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they should not.

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    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

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    11Knowing that such a person is warped, sinful, and self-condemned.

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    9LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

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    8Let your speech be sound and beyond reproach, so that any opponent may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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    13But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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    6Some have departed from these and turned aside to meaningless talk.

    7They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or what they so confidently affirm.

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    5I left you in Crete for this reason, so that you might set in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you.

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    15They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone.

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    25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen.

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    5These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.

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    23And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.

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    13For from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for unjust gain; prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit.

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    18For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

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    13They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackest darkness has been reserved forever.