Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

Bible References

Of

Acts 17:28
For in him we live, move, and have our being, as certain of your own poets said. For we are also his generation.

Liars

Romans 16:18
For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ: but their own bellies. And with sweet preachings and flattering words deceive the hearts of the innocents:
1 Timothy 4:2
and devilish doctrine of them which speak false through hypocrisy, and have their consciences marked with a hot iron,
2 Peter 2:12
But these, as brute beasts, naturally made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of that they know not, and shall perish through their own destruction,
Jude 1:8
Likewise these dreamers defile the flesh, despise rulers, and speak evil of them that are in authority.