Cross references

Titus 1:12

As one of their own prophets has said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

Titus 1:12 BSB
  1. a This quote, also known as the Epimenides paradox, has been attributed to the Cretan philosopher Epimenides of Knossos.

Titus 1:12 has 7 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Romans 16:18 (6 votes) and 1 Timothy 4:2 (5 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Leviticus 11 to Jude 1.

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Which verses does Titus 1:12 point to?

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  1. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

  2. influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

  3. Acts 17:284 votes

    ‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’

  4. They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

  5. Acts 2:112 votes

    both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

  6. These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

  7. Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings. But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” …

Which verses point to Titus 1:12?

The 10 strongest of 12.