Titus 2:1-12 ▼

1 As for you, teach nothing

2 but what is agreeable to sound doctrine: advise the aged to be prudent, grave, temperate, sound in faith,

3 in charity, in patience: the aged women likewise, to behave with sanctity of manners, not false accusers, not given to tipling,

4 but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,

5 to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, good oeconimists, beneficent, submissive to their husbands,

6 that the word of God may not be blasphemed, the young men likewise exhort to be modest.

7 In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,

8 gravity; let your doctrine be sound and inoffensive, that your opponents may be ashamed, and have nothing that is ill to say of us.

9 Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, to be

10 entirely obsequious without grumbling, not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

11 For the divine savour has display'd its salutary effects to all mankind:

12 teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;