Titus 2

1 But do, thou, speak the things which become the healthful instruction: —

But speak thou the things that belong to wholesome doctrine.

2 That, aged men, be, sober, grave, sober-minded, healthy in their faith, love, endurance;

And teach the older men to be watchful in their minds, and to be sober, and to be pure, and to be sound in the faith, and in love and in patience.

3 Aged women, in the same way, in deportment, as becometh sacred persons, not given to intrigue, nor yet, to much wine, enslaved, teachers of virtue, —

And so also the elder women, that they be in behavior as becometh the fear of God; and not to be slanderers; and not to be addicted to much wine; and to be inculcators of good things,

4 That they may constrain the young women to be, lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

making the younger women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children,

5 soberminded, chaste, workers at home, good, submitting themselves to their own husbands, —that, the word of God, be not defamed;

to be chaste and holy, and to take good care of their households, and to be obedient to their husbands; so that no one may reproach the word of God.

6 The younger men, in the same way, exhort thou to be sober-minded:

And likewise exhort young men to be sober.

7 In all things, shewing, thyself, an ensample of noble works, —in thine instruction, uncorruptness, gravity,

And in every thing show thyself a pattern, as to all good works: and in thy teaching, let thy discourse be healthful,

8 healthful discourse that cannot be condemned, in order that, he that is of the contrary part, may relent, having nothing to say concerning us that is disparaging:

such as is sober and uncorrupt; and let no one despise it: so that he who riseth up against us, may be ashamed, seeing he can say nothing odious against us.

9 Servants, unto their own masters, to be submitting themselves in all things, to be, well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

Let servants obey their masters in every thing, and strive to please them, and not contradict, nor pilfer;

10 not taking anything away, shewing, all good faith, —that, the instruction which is of our Saviour God, they may adorn in all things.

but let them manifest that their fidelity, in all respects, is good: so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Life-giver, in all things.

11 For the favour of God, bringing salvation for all men, hath shone forth,

For the all-vivifying grace of God, is revealed to all men;

12 Putting us under discipline—in order that, —denying ourselves of ungodliness and worldly covetings, in a soberminded and righteous and godly manner, we should live, in the present age, (aiōn g165)

and it teacheth us, to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to live in this world in sobriety, and in uprightness, and in the fear of God, (aiōn g165)

13 Prepared to welcome the happy hope and forthshining of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Christ Jesus, —

looking for the blessed hope, and the manifestation of the glory of the great God, and our Life-giver, Jesus the Messiah;

14 Who gave himself up in our behalf, that he might redeem us from all manner of lawlessness, and purify for himself a people as his own treasure—zealous of noble works.

who gave himself for us, that he might recover us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a new people, who are zealous in good works.

15 As to these things, be speaking and exhorting and reproving, with all manner of precept: let, no one, disregard thee!

These things speak thou, and exhort, and inculcate, with all authority; and let no one despise thee.