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

有克里特人中的一个本地先知说：“克里特人常说谎话，乃是恶兽，又馋又懒。”

克里特人中有一个本地的先知说：“克里特人常说谎话，是恶兽，贪吃懒做。”

克里特人中有一个本地的先知说：“克里特人常说谎话，是恶兽，贪吃懒做。”

克里特人自己的一位先知说：“克里特人说谎成性，邪恶如兽，好吃懒做。”

有一个克里特本地的先知说过：“克里特人是常常说谎的，是恶兽，好吃懒作。”

克里特人中有一位，是他们自己的先知，曾经说过：“克里特人总是说谎的，是恶兽，好吃懒做。”

有克里特人中的一個本地先知說：「克里特人常說謊話，乃是惡獸，又饞又懶。」

克里特人中有一個本地的先知說：「克里特人常說謊話，是惡獸，貪吃懶做。」

克里特人中有一個本地的先知說：「克里特人常說謊話，是惡獸，貪吃懶做。」

克里特人自己的一位先知說：「克里特人說謊成性，邪惡如獸，好吃懶做。」

有一個克里特本地的先知說過：“克里特人是常常說謊的，是惡獸，好吃懶作。”

克里特人中間有一個人、就是他們自己的神言傳講師、曾經說過：『革哩底人永遠是撒謊者，是惡獸，是懶惰的大腹者』：

克里特人中有一位，是他們自己的先知，曾經說過：「克里特人總是說謊的，是惡獸，好吃懶做。」

其族有一先知、曰、革哩底人、恆為誑者、為惡獸、為慵惰之饕餮、

有革哩底同族之先知者曰、革哩底人常誑言、惟思果腹、憚於操作、猶暴獸然、

基利提本族有詩人曰、基利提人、常好誑言、情如惡獸、腹飽身惰、

昔革雷底人之先知曾曰：『革雷底人慣說謊、飽食終日行如獸。』信哉言乎！

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

One of Crete’s own prophets has a saying. He says,“ People from Crete are always liars. They are evil beasts. They don’t want to work. They live only to eat.”

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

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.”

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

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

One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

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

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

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

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

For in him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said,‘ For we are also his offspring.’

through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

Cretans and Arabs— we hear them declaring the magnificent acts of God in our own tongues.”

They have gone astray by abandoning the straight path and have followed the path of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of wickedness

But these people, like irrational animals— creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed— slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.

In the same way these people— relying on their dreams— defile their flesh, reject authority, and slander glorious ones.Yet when Michael the archangel was disputing with the devil in an argument about Moses’s body, he did not dare utter a slanderous condemnation against him but said,“ The Lord rebuke you!”But these people blaspheme anything they do not understand. And what they do understand by instinct— like irrational animals— by these things they are destroyed.Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, have plunged into Balaam’s error for profit, and have perished in Korah’s rebellion.These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn— fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.