“aiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and…
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the…
“Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they…
“Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent…
“Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled” (Titus 2:6). How simple an instruction that flies in the face of what our contemporary culture promotes. Be all that you can…
“They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to…
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine” (Titus 2:3a). Be dutiful and keep what you know to yourself. This may sound…
“Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness” (Titus 2:2). This list is not impossible, nor unfair. It might read like a…
“But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine” (Titus 2:1). There is good doctrine and doctrine which is not good. Do not be led astray by wickedness, even…
“To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God,…