1 You, however, must teach what is consistent with healthy beliefs. 2 Older men shouldn't drink; they should be respectable and sensible, with a healthy trust in God, loving and patient. 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. 4 They should be teachers of what's good, teaching the young wives to love their husbands and 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. 6 Likewise tell the young men to be sensible. 7 You should set an example of doing good in all areas of life: show integrity and seriousness in what you teach, 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. 9 Tell servants to always obey their masters. They should try to please them and not talk back to them. 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. 11 For God's grace has been revealed, bringing salvation to everyone. 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 13 as we look for the wonderful hope of the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior 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. 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.
Titus 2 Free Bible Version
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Cross references (15)
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- 1 2 Timothy 1:13; 1 Timothy 6:3; Titus 1:9; 1 Timothy 1:10; Titus 3:8
- 2 Galatians 5:23; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Timothy 3:11; 1 Peter 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:8
- 3 Titus 2:4; 1 Timothy 3:11; 1 Peter 3:3–5; 1 Timothy 2:9–10; Titus 1:7
- 4 1 Timothy 5:14; 1 Timothy 5:2; 1 Timothy 5:11
- 5 Proverbs 31:10–31; Colossians 3:18; 1 Timothy 5:10; 1 Timothy 5:13–14; 1 Peter 3:1–5
- 6 Ecclesiastes 12:1; 1 Peter 5:5; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Joel 2:28; 1 John 2:13
- 7 1 Peter 5:3; 1 Timothy 4:12; 2 Corinthians 4:2; Philippians 1:10; 2 Corinthians 1:12
- 8 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 2:15; 1 Peter 3:16; 1 Timothy 6:3; Philippians 2:14–16
- 9 1 Peter 2:18–25; 1 Timothy 6:1–2; Ephesians 6:5–8; Colossians 3:22–25; Ephesians 5:24
- 10 Matthew 5:16; 1 Peter 2:12; 2 John 9; 1 Samuel 26:23; 1 Timothy 6:3
- 11 Ephesians 2:8; 1 Timothy 2:4; Isaiah 45:22; Hebrews 2:9; Ephesians 2:5
- 12 Ezekiel 36:27; Matthew 16:24; Romans 6:19; Psalm 4:3; 2 Peter 2:9
- 13 2 Timothy 4:8; 1 Corinthians 1:7; Matthew 16:27; Titus 1:2; 2 Peter 3:12–14
- 14 Hebrews 9:14; Ephesians 2:10; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 1:18; Titus 3:8
- 15 2 Timothy 4:2; 1 Timothy 4:12–13; Titus 1:13; 1 Timothy 5:20; Matthew 7:29
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
There are some failings which age has, that youth has not. Some indeed it has in common with youth, but in addition it has a slowness, a timidity, a forgetfulness, an insensibility, and an irritability.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
… faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers?" There, too, he says: "But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: that the aged men be sober," and so on. And there, too: "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Accordingly, when thou seest an enemy of the truth, wait on him, take care of him, lead him back into virtue, by showing forth an excellent life, by applying "speech that cannot be condemned," by bestowing attention and tender care, by trying every means of amendment, in imitation of the best physicians.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… which bringeth salvation unto all men, instructing us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and godly, and righteously in this present world; looking for the blessed hope, and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
But when we speak of the dispensations made for man by our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, who will gainsay their having been accomplished through the grace of the Spirit?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)