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


In Context

9 holding — according to the teaching — to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers — especially they of the circumcision —

11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

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

13 this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

14 not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away 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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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