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Titus 1:11-16

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11 They must be stopped. They are destroying entire families. They are teaching things they shouldn't. They do it to get money by cheating people.
11 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 Even one of their own prophets has said, "People from Crete are always liars. They are evil beasts. They don't want to work. They live only to eat."
12 One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”
13 What I have just said is true. So give them a strong warning. Then they will understand the faith correctly.
13 This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith
14 They will pay no attention to Jewish stories that aren't completely true. They won't listen to the commands of those who turn away from the truth.
14 and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.
15 To people who are pure, all things are pure. But to those who have twisted minds and don't believe, nothing is pure. In fact, their minds and their sense of what is right and wrong are twisted.
15 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 to know God. But their actions show they don't know him. They are hated by God. They refuse to obey him. They aren't fit to do anything good.
16 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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