<p>1:11 <i>Whose mouths must be stopped</i>- They must be excluded from the teaching structure; there is no mention of driving them out of the church or limiting their access to the Lord's table.</p><p><i>Men who overthrow whole houses</i>- The churches of Crete as elsewhere in the first century were comprised of house groups, which were vulnerable to subversion by individual teachers. </p><p><i>Teaching things which they should not, all for money's sake</i>- What exactly was the connection between their teaching and money? Were they demanding payment for their teaching services? That sounds unlikely to have been successful. Perhaps they were pedalling a version of the prosperity gospel. Or perhaps they were playing on the fact that Judaism was a registered religion within the Roman empire, and religious Jews were free from army service and paying some taxes. To affiliate with the synagogue was attractive; and we note that the false teachers were Jewish (:10,14). See on :15 <i>To the pure</i>.</p><p>The early corruption of Christianity was due to false teachers who like Balaam &quot;loved the wages of unrighteousness&quot; (2 Pet. 2:15); they taught false doctrine for the sake of money (Tit. 1:11). Time and again the NT warns against elders who would be motivated by the love of money rather than the Lord Jesus and His people (1 Tim. 3:3,8; Tit. 1:7; 1 Pet. 5:2). The Greek translated &quot;filthy lucre&quot; in the AV is hard to understand; it doesn't just mean 'money'. It suggests profit that is somehow filthy, morally disgusting. This is what money turns into, in God's eyes, when men so love it.</p>