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 and move, and exist; as some also of your own poets have said, "For we his offspring are."

Liars

Romans 16:18
and avoid them; for such people serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by a soothing address and good words deceive the hearts of the innocent.
1 Timothy 4:2
and doctrines of demons founded in the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience, forbidding to marry,
2 Peter 2:12
But these men, like brute beasts naturally produced to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things which they do not understand, shall perish by their own corruption; receiving the reward of their unrighteousness:
Jude 1:8
So these vile dreamers also defile the flesh, despise authority, and speak evil of dignities.