As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the h
influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedn
These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matte
Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”