What
Must Be Taught
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 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 n 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.
(Titus
2)
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