The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
10 For there are many and disorderly vain speakers and deceivers of people's minds, specially those of [the] circumcision,
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For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.
11 who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not [to be taught] for the sake of base gain.
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They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.
12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, has said, Cretans are always liars, evil wild beasts, lazy gluttons.
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One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”
13 This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
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This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith
14 not turning [their] minds to Jewish fables and commandments of men turning away from the truth.
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and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.
15 All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
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To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
16 They profess to know God, but in works deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.
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They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
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