Titus 2

¹And thou—be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; ²aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; ³aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, ⁴that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, ⁵sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. ⁶The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; ⁷concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, ⁸discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you. ⁹Servants—to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, ¹⁰not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

¹¹For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹²teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, ¹³waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

¹⁵These things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

Chapter 3