Titus 2
1 You, however, must teach what is consistent with healthy beliefs.
But do thou speak the things that become sound teaching;
2 Older men shouldn't drink; they should be respectable and sensible, with a healthy trust in God, loving and patient.
that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
3 Similarly older women ought to behave in a way that shows they live their lives for God. They shouldn't destroy people's reputations by what they say, and they shouldn't be addicted to wine.
that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;
4 They should be teachers of what's good, teaching the young wives to love their husbands and their children.
that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,
5 They are to be sensible and pure, working in their homes, doing good and listening to what their husbands tell them. In this way the word of God will not be spoken about badly.
discreet, chaste, diligent in home work, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
6 Likewise tell the young men to be sensible.
The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:
7 You should set an example of doing good in all areas of life: show integrity and seriousness in what you teach,
in all things affording thyself as a pattern of good works; in teaching uncorruptedness, gravity,
8 sharing healthy beliefs that can't be criticized. In this way those who are opposed will be ashamed of themselves and won't have anything bad to say about us.
a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:
9 Tell servants to always obey their masters. They should try to please them and not talk back to them.
bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;
10 They shouldn't steal things for themselves, but show they are completely trustworthy so that they may rightly represent the truth about God our Savior in every way.
not robbing [their masters], but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which [is] of our Saviour God in all things.
11 For God's grace has been revealed, bringing salvation to everyone.
For the grace of God which carries with it salvation for all men has appeared,
12 It teaches us to reject a godless way of life with the desires of this world. Instead we should live thoughtful, self-controlled lives that are right before God in the present world (aiōn g165)
teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things, (aiōn g165)
13 as we look for the wonderful hope of the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 He gave himself for us, so that he could set us free from all our wickedness, and to make us clean for him—a people who belong to him, keen to do good.
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.
15 This is what you should be teaching. You have the authority to encourage and to correct as necessary. Don't let anyone look down on you.
These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.
