9 Embracing that faithful word which is according to doctrine, that he may be able to exhort in sound doctrine and to convince the gainsayers.

10 For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision.

11 Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.

12 One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

13 This testimony is true. Wherefore, rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith:

14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn themselves away from the truth.

15 All things are clean to the clean: but to them that are defiled and to unbelievers, nothing is clean: but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

16 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.