This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; This witness - (though coming from a Cretian) "is true."
Sharply - gentleness would not reclaim so perverse offenders. That they - that those seduced by the false teachers may be brought back to soundness in the faith. Their malady is strifes about words and questions (Titus 3:9; 1 Timothy 6:4).