Titus 1:10 (YLT)

Passage

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers--especially they of the circumcision--

Nearby Context

Titus 1:8 but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

Titus 1:9 holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

Titus 1:10 for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers--especially they of the circumcision--

Titus 1:11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Titus 1:12 A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "both", "insubordinate", "vain-talkers", "mind-deceivers--especially", and "circumcision--". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "both" and "insubordinate", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word..." into verse 11's "whose mouth it behoveth to stop who...", so "both" and "insubordinate" belong inside that flow. In Titus context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "both" and "insubordinate" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.