Titus 2:1-8 ▼

1 But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits wholesome teaching.

2 Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.

3 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

4 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

5 industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

6 In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,

7 and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

8 and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.