Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
11 It is necessary to stop their talk, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching what they should not, and all for the shameful purpose of making money.
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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 It was a Cretan himself, one of their own prophets, who spoke the truth when he said, "Cretans are always liars, wicked beasts, and lazy gluttons." For this reason you must rebuke them sharply, so that they may have a healthy faith
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One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”
14 and no longer hold on to Jewish legends and to human commandments which come from people who have rejected 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 Everything is pure to those who are themselves pure; but nothing is pure to those who are defiled and unbelieving, for their minds and consciences have been 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 claim that they know God, but their actions deny it. They are hateful and disobedient, not fit to do anything good.
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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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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