Titus 2:3–5

2:3 Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good. 2:4 In this way4 they will train5 the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, 2:5 to be self-controlled,6 pure, fulfilling their duties at home,7 kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message8 of God may not be discredited.9

4	tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).
5	tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (sōphronizō), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.
6	tn Or “sensible.”
7	tn Grk “domestic,” “keeping house.”
8	tn Or “word.”
9	tn Or “slandered.”