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TITUS • CHAPTER 2
Titus 2
Church leadership, sound teaching, household ethics, good works, social conduct, and community discipline.
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Titus 2
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But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
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that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:
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and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
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that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
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to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
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Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.
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In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
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and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
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Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,
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not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
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For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
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instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
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looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
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Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.
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