Titus 2:4

Titus 2:4

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,

8 sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of¹ you.

9 Exhort ^abondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,

10 not¹ pilfering, but showing all good² fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

Trained by Saving Grace

11 For ^athe grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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to be sober—Greek, "self-restrained," "discreet"; the same Greek as in Titus 2:2, "temperate." (But see on Titus 2:2; compare Note, II Timothy 1:7). ALFORD therefore translates, "That they school (admonish in their duty) the young women to be lovers of their husbands," etc. (the foundation of all domestic happiness). It was judicious that Titus, a young man, should admonish the young women, not directly, but through the older women.

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