10 [3] For there are also many rebels, idle talkers and deceivers, especially the Jewish Christians. [4]

11 It is imperative to silence them, as they are upsetting whole families by teaching for sordid gain what they should not.

12 One of them, a prophet of their own, once said, "Cretans have always been liars, vicious beasts, and lazy gluttons." [5]