Titus 2

¹But as for you, speak what is appropriate for healthy teaching. ²Older men should be clear-headed, dignified, sound-minded, and healthy in their trust, in their love, and in their patient endurance. ³Older women, likewise, must behave in a way that is suited to sacred service—not as slanderers or as those enslaved to much wine, but as teachers of what is noble. ⁴In this way, they can train the younger women in sound judgment: to be lovers of their husbands and children, ⁵to be sound-minded, pure, active in their homes, kind, and yielding to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be slandered.

⁶Exhort the younger men likewise to be sound-minded. ⁷In everything, present yourself as a model of good works. In your teaching, show integrity and dignity, ⁸and use healthy speech that is beyond reproach, so that any opponent may be put to shame because they have nothing worthless to say about us. ⁹Slaves are to yield to their own masters in all things, to be well-pleasing, not talking back ¹⁰or pilfering, but demonstrating a completely good faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in every way.

¹¹For the grace of God has appeared—an epiphany bringing salvation to all people— ¹²training us so that, having renounced ungodliness and worldly desires, we might live sound-mindedly, justly, and devoutly in this present age. ¹³We live this way while we await the blessed hope: the epiphany of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. ¹⁴He gave himself on our behalf to ransom us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people to be his own treasured possession, zealous for good works. ¹⁵Speak these things, encourage, and convict with all authority. Let no one disregard you.