Titus 1:8
Context1:8 Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.
Titus 1:11-12
Context1:11 who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught. 1:12 A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” 1
Titus 1:16
Context1:16 They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
Titus 2:12
Context2:12 It trains us 2 to reject godless ways 3 and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 sn A saying attributed to the poet Epimenides of Crete (6th century
2 tn Grk “training us” (as a continuation of the previous clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 12 by translating the participle παιδεύουσα (paideuousa) as a finite verb and supplying the pronoun “it” as subject.
3 tn Grk “ungodliness.”