Titus 2:1 - Forerunner Commentary

Titus 2:1

Qualities of a Sound Church

1 But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:

2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—

4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

5 to be discreet, chaste, ^ahomemakers, good, ^bobedient to their own husbands, ^cthat the word of God may not be blasphemed.

6 Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,

7 in all things showing yourself to be ^aa pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, ^bincorruptibility,

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American Standard Version
But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:

Amplified® Bible
BUT [as for] you, teach what is fitting {and} becoming to sound (wholesome) doctrine [the character and right living that identify true Christians].

Contemporary English Version
Titus, you must teach only what is correct.

Darby English Version
But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching;

Good News Bible
But you must teach what agrees with sound doctrine.

International Standard Version
But as for you, teach what is consistent with healthy doctrine.

King James Version
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

New American Standard Bible
But as for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.

New International Version
You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.

New King James Version
But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
But as for you, speak the things which prove fitting for sound doctrine.

Young's Literal Translation
And thou -- be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

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