For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam {the son} of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Likewise also these {filthy} dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.

But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone; {Crete: or, Candy}

But now {they that are} younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}

Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon {all} four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they {are} an abomination. {hath...: Heb. doth multiply feet}

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.