Titus 1:10
New International Version
For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.

New Living Translation
For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. This is especially true of those who insist on circumcision for salvation.

English Standard Version
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.

Berean Standard Bible
For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,

Berean Literal Bible
For there are also many insubordinate, empty talkers, and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

King James Bible
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

New King James Version
For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

New American Standard Bible
For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

NASB 1995
For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

NASB 1977
For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Legacy Standard Bible
For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Amplified Bible
For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved].

Christian Standard Bible
For there are many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from the circumcision party.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For there are also many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from Judaism.

American Standard Version
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For there are men who are not submissive and their words are empty; they deceive the minds of people, especially those who are of the circumcision,

Contemporary English Version
There are many who don't respect authority, and they fool others by talking nonsense. This is especially true of some Jewish followers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For there are also many disobedient, vain talkers, and seducers: especially they who are of the circumcision:

English Revised Version
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There are many believers, especially converts from Judaism, who are rebellious. They speak nonsense and deceive people.

Good News Translation
For there are many, especially the converts from Judaism, who rebel and deceive others with their nonsense.

International Standard Version
For there are many people who are rebellious, especially those who are converts from Judaism. They speak utter nonsense and deceive people.

Literal Standard Version
for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers—especially those of the circumcision—

Majority Standard Bible
For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of (the) circumcision,

New American Bible
For there are also many rebels, idle talkers and deceivers, especially the Jewish Christians.

NET Bible
For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,

New Revised Standard Version
There are also many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision;

New Heart English Bible
For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Webster's Bible Translation
For there are many disorderly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

Weymouth New Testament
For there are many that spurn authority--idle, talkative and deceitful persons, who, for the most part, are adherents of the Circumcision.

World English Bible
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Young's Literal Translation
for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

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Context
Correcting False Teachers
9He must hold firmly to the faithful word as it was taught, so that he can encourage others by sound teaching and refute those who contradict it. 10For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision, 11who must be silenced. For the sake of dishonorable gain, they undermine entire households and teach things they should not.…

Cross References
Acts 11:2
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him

2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

1 Timothy 1:6
Some have strayed from these ways and turned aside to empty talk.

1 Timothy 1:9
We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,

Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and who are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

1 John 2:4
If anyone says, "I know Him," but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.


Treasury of Scripture

For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

there.

Acts 20:29
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Romans 16:17-18
Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them…

2 Corinthians 11:12-15
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we…

specially.

Acts 15:1,24
And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved…

Galatians 1:6-8
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: …

Galatians 2:4
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

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Titus 1
1. Paul greets Titus, who was left to finish the work in Crete.
6. How those chosen as ministers ought to be qualified.
11. The mouths of evil teachers to be stopped;
12. and what manner of men they be.














(10) For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers.--Nominally in the congregations of Christians, but in reality refusing all obedience, acting for themselves, factious, insubordinate. Titus would, alas, discover many such; these often would be found to be possessed of the gift of fluent and deceptive speech, and would deceive many. Professor Reynolds characterises such restless, uneasy spirits as loquacious, restless talkers, "who must say something, and who have broken the peace of many a home and shattered the prosperity of many a church; the multitude of teachers who have nothing true to say is the curse of the kingdom of God."

Specially they of the circumcision.--Here St. Paul points out to Titus where he must look for the origin of this hostility. These unhappy men evidently did not belong to the stern and rigid Jewish party who hated with a bitter hate all the followers of the Nazarene, but were of the number of those sleepless opponents of St. Paul and his school--the Judaising Christians.

Verse 10. - Unruly men for unruly and, A.V. and T.R. Unruly (ἀνυπότακτοι); see ver. 6. Vain talkers (ματαιολόγοι); only here in the New Testament, not found in the LXX., and rare in classical Greek (see ματαιολογία, 1 Timothy 1:6). Κενολόγος and κενολογία are used in the same sense of "vain, empty, talking." Deceivers - (φρεναπάται); here only in the New Testament, not found in the LXX. or in classical Greek - literally, soul-deceivers, or, as some take St, self-deceivers (compare φρεναπατάω, Galatians 6:3, and for the sense James 1:26; but in both these instances the idea of self-deceiving is imported by the context, ἑαυτὸν and καρδίαν αὐτοῦ). Here the word means "deceivers," whoso character is described in 2 Peter 2:14 as "beguiling unstable souls." They of the circumcision; Judaizing Christians, the most obstinate and difficult adversaries with whom St. Paul had to cope (see Galatians passim; Philippians 3:2, 3, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

many
πολλοὶ (polloi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.

are
Εἰσὶν (Eisin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

rebellious
ἀνυπότακτοι (anypotaktoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 506: Not subject to rule, unruly. Unsubdued, i.e. Insubordinate.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

full of empty talk
ματαιολόγοι (mataiologoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3151: A vain, empty talker. From mataios and lego; an idle talker, i.e. A wrangler.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

deception,
φρεναπάται (phrenapatai)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 5423: A deceiver, seducer. From phren and apate; a mind-misleader, i.e. Seducer.

especially
μάλιστα (malista)
Adverb
Strong's 3122: Most of all, especially. Neuter plural of the superlative of an apparently primary adverb mala; most or particularly.

those
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

of
ἐκ (ek)
Preposition
Strong's 1537: From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

the
τῆς (tēs)
Article - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

circumcision,
περιτομῆς (peritomēs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 4061: Circumcision. From peritemno; circumcision.


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