Titus 1:12

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 2:8

2:8 and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ²  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

Titus 3:5

3:5 he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

[1:12]  ¹ sn A saying attributed to the poet Epimenides of Crete (6th century b.c.).

[2:8]  ² tn Or “put to shame.”