Titus 1:12
One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a
Acts 17:28
For in Him we live and move and exist [that is, in Him we actually have our being], as even some of
Acts 2:11
Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!”
Romans 16:18
For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites and base desires. By smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting [the innocent and the naive].
1 Timothy 4:2
[misled] by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared as with a branding iron [leaving them incapable of ethical functioning],
2 Peter 2:12
But these [false teachers], like unreasoning animals, [mere] creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed, reviling things they do not understand, will also perish in their own corruption [in their destroying they will be destroyed],
2 Peter 2:15
Abandoning the straight road [that is, the right way to live], they have gone astray; they have followed the way of [the false teacher] Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the reward of wickedness;
Jude 1:8-13
Nevertheless in the same way, these dreamers [who are dreaming that God will not punish them] also defile the body, and reject [legitimate] authority, and revile and mock angelic majesties.