12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.


In Context

9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the disputers.

10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

13 This witness is true. Why rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

Titus 1:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:12One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:12Even one of their own prophets has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons."

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:12One of them a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:12One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are alway liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12One of them, a prophet of their own, said, |Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:12A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said — 'Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'