9. holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
10. For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
11. whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
12. One of them, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.”