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Titus 2:8
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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,
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Titus 2:8

Sound (ugih, Attic usually ugia in accusative singular), elsewhere in Pastorals participle ugianwn (verse Titus 2:1).

That cannot be condemned (akatagnwston). Only N.T. example (verbal, a privative and katagnwstov) and in IV Macc. 4:47. Deissmann (Bible Studies, p. 200) quotes it from an inscription and the adverb from a papyrus.

He that is of the contrary part (o ec enantiav). "The one on the opposite side" (your opponent). Cf. verse Titus 2:9; I Timothy 5:14.

May be ashamed (ina entraph). Final clause with ina and second aorist passive subjunctive of entrepw, to turn, in middle and passive to turn one on himself and so be ashamed (to blush) as in II Thessalonians 3:14; I Corinthians 4:14. This sense in the papyri.

Evil (faulon). Old word, easy (easy morals), worthless; bad, as in II Corinthians 5:10.




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