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in the hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the beginning of time

One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”

in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

This truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life, which God—who does not lie—promised them before the world began.

Even one of their own men, a prophet from Crete, has said about them, “The people of Crete are all liars, cruel animals, and lazy gluttons.”

in the hope of eternal life  that God, who cannot lie,  promised before time began.

One of their very own prophets said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

in hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

I, Paul, am God’s slave and Christ’s agent for promoting the faith among God’s chosen people, getting out the accurate word on God and how to respond rightly to it. My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago—and he doesn’t break promises! And then when the time was ripe, he went public with his truth. I’ve been entrusted to proclaim this Message by order of our Savior, God himself. Dear Titus, legitimate son in the faith: Receive everything God our Father and Jesus our Savior give you!

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. They’ve got to be shut up. They’re disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck. One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies. He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules so they can recover a robust faith. Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act. They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They’re real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.

in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

based on the hope and divine guarantee of eternal life, [the life] which God, who is ever truthful and without deceit, promised before the ages of time began

One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

in hope of eternal life, which God, who does not lie, promised before the ages began.

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”