titus 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

titus 1:11 who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not [teach], for the sake of sordid gain.

11. mouths . . . stopped--literally, "muzzled," "bridled" as an unruly beast (compare Ps 32:9).
who--Greek, "(seeing that they are) such men as"; or "inasmuch as they" [ELLICOTT].
subvert . . . houses--"overthrowing" their "faith" (2Ti 2:18). "They are the devil's levers by which he subverts the houses of God" [THEOPHYLACT].
for filthy lucre-- (1Ti 3:3, 8; 6:5).

titus 1:11 who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not [teach], for the sake of sordid gain.

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