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11 It’s important that they should be silenced, because they are overturning whole households by teaching things that shouldn’t be taught—and trying to make a shameful living out of it! 12 One of their own, a native prophet, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil animals, idle guzzlers.” 13 This testimony is true! That’s why you must rebuke them sternly, so that they may become healthy in the faith,

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11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households(A) by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. 12 One of Crete’s own prophets(B) has said it: “Cretans(C) are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”[a] 13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke(D) them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 1:12 From the Cretan philosopher Epimenides