Titus 3:3

Titus 3:3. Such conduct becomes people who (1) were once like the heathen, but who (2) have been changed through Divine grace and no merit of their own. The argument turns on the vast change conversion to Christ had made in Cretan Christians.

Sometimes should be ‘sometime' or ‘once.'

We takes in Paul himself and all Christians. Their past is described in seven particulars.

Foolish, i.e. without just ideas through the darkening effect of sin.

Deceived, or deluded, includes practical as well as intellectual errors. ‘Enslaved to desires and various pleasures' describes the self-indulgent, as the next words describe the malignant, character of heathendom the whole a frightful picture of unregenerate unchristian society.