ESV 10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. MSG 10 For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. ESV 11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. MSG 11 They've got to be shut up. They're disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck. ESV 12 One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." MSG 12 One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies. ESV 13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, MSG 13 He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules ESV 14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. MSG 14 so they can recover a robust faith. ESV 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. MSG 15 Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act. ESV 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. MSG 16 They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They're real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.
MSG 10 For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. MSG 11 They've got to be shut up. They're disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck. MSG 12 One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies. MSG 13 He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules MSG 14 so they can recover a robust faith. MSG 15 Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act. MSG 16 They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They're real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.