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So that they will wisely train the young women to be [a]sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) and to love their husbands and their children,

To be self-controlled, chaste, homemakers, good-natured (kindhearted), adapting and subordinating themselves to their husbands, that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited).

In a similar way, urge the younger men to be self-restrained and to behave prudently [taking life seriously].

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 2:4 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament: The Greek verb here translated “train” means “to make sane or sober of mind, to moderate, to discipline.”

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