| 2 | Titus | ||
| 1 | For your own part, what you say must be in keeping with wholesome doctrine. | The Teaching of Sound Doctrine Tt.2.1-15 | |
| 2 | Let the older men know that they should be sober, high-principled, and temperate, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. | ||
| 3 | The older women, similarly, should be reverent in their bearing, not scandal-mongers or slaves to strong drink; they must set a high standard, | ||
| 4 | and school the younger women to be loving wives and mothers, | ||
| 5 | temperate, chaste, and kind, busy at home, respecting the authority of their own husbands. Thus the Gospel will not be brought into disrepute. | ||
| 6 | Urge the younger men, similarly, to be temperate | ||
| 7 | in all things, and set them a good example yourself. In your teaching, you must show integrity and high principle, | ||
| 8 | and use wholesome speech to which none can take exception. This will shame any opponent, when he finds not a word to say to our discredit. | ||
| 9 | Tell slaves to respect their masters' authority in everything, and to comply with their demands without answering back; | ||
| 10 | not to pilfer, but to show themselves strictly honest and trustworthy; for in all such ways they will add lustre to the doctrine of God our Saviour. | ||
| 11 | For the grace of God has dawned upon the world with healing for all mankind; | ||
| 12 | and by it we are disciplined to renounce godless ways and worldly desires, and to live a life of temperance, honesty, and godliness in the present age, | ||
| 13 | looking forward to the happy fulfilment of our hope when the splendour of our great God and Saviour Christ Jesus will appear. | ||
| 14 | He it is who sacrificed himself for us, to set us free from all wickedness and to make us a pure people marked out for his own, eager to do good. | ||
| 15 | These, then, are your themes; urge them and argue them. And speak with authority: let no one slight you. | ||
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