Titus 2

Teach Sound Doctrine

²But as for you, teach what is consistent with sound instruction. ²Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

³Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,^{* 4}so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.^*

⁶Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled ⁷in all things, offering yourself as a model of good works and in your teaching offering integrity, gravity, ⁸and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.^*

⁹Urge slaves to be submissive to their masters in everything, to be pleasing, not talking back,^{* 10}not stealing, but showing complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the teaching of God our Savior.

¹¹For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,^{f* 12}training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,^{* 13}while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior,^g Jesus Christ.^{* 14}He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.^*

¹⁵Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority.^h Let no one look down on you.