To Titus 2:1-15
2 You, however, keep on speaking what is consistent with wholesome* teaching.+
2 Let the older men be moderate in habits, serious, sound in mind, healthy in faith, in love, in endurance.
3 Likewise, let the older women be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to a lot of wine, teachers of what is good,
4 so that they may advise* the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 to be sound in mind, chaste, working at home,* good, subjecting themselves to their own husbands,+ so that the word of God may not be spoken of abusively.
6 Likewise, keep on urging the younger men to be sound in mind,+
7 showing yourself to be an example of fine works in every way. Teach what is pure* with all seriousness,+
8 using wholesome* speech that cannot be criticized,+ so that those who oppose may be put to shame, having nothing negative* to say about us.+
9 Let slaves be in subjection to their owners in all things,+ trying to please them, not talking back,
10 not stealing from them,+ but showing complete trustworthiness, so that in every way they may adorn the teaching of our Savior, God.+
11 For the undeserved kindness of God has been manifested, bringing salvation to all sorts of people.+
12 It trains us to reject ungodliness and worldly desires+ and to live with soundness of mind and righteousness and godly devotion amid this present system of things,*+
13 while we wait for the happy hope+ and glorious manifestation of the great God and of our Savior, Jesus Christ,
14 who gave himself for us+ to set us free*+ from every sort of lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people who are his own special possession, zealous for fine works.+
15 Keep on speaking these things and exhorting* and reproving with full authority.+ Do not let anyone look down on you.
Footnotes
^ Or “healthful; beneficial.”
^ Or “recall to their senses; train.”
^ Or “caring for their homes.”
^ Or possibly, “Teach with purity.”
^ Or “healthful; beneficial.”
^ Or “vile.”
^ Lit., “to ransom us; to redeem us.”
^ Or “encouraging.”
