Titus 2

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• 1. You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
• 2. Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
• 3. Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
• 4. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children,
• 5. to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
• 6. Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
• 7. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness
• 8. and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
• 9. Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,
• 10. and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.
• 11. For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
• 12. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,
• 13. while we wait for the blessed hope--the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
• 14. who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
• 15. These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

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