Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
mouths . . . stopped—literally, "muzzled," "bridled" as an unruly beast (compare Psalms 32:9).
who—Greek, "(seeing that they are) such men as"; or "inasmuch as they" [ELLICOTT].
subvert . . . houses—"overthrowing" their "faith" (II Timothy 2:18). "They are the devil's levers by which he subverts the houses of God" [THEOPHYLACT].
for filthy lucre— (I Timothy 3:3, I Timothy 3:8; I Timothy 6:5).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Titus 1:11:
Acts 17:30
1 Timothy 5:13
2 Timothy 2:18
Titus 1:1
Titus 1:7
Titus 2:1
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