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Jeremiah 24-26
Revised Geneva Translation
Jeremiah 24-26
Revised Geneva Translation
24 The LORD showed me. And behold, two baskets of figs were set before the Temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel, had carried away captive Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah with the workmen, and cunning men of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babel.
2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first. And the other basket had very bad figs which could not be eaten, they were so evil.
3 Then said the LORD to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” And I said, “Figs, the good figs very good and the bad very bad which cannot be eaten, they are so evil.”
4 Again, the Word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: ‘Like these good figs, so will I know those of Judah who are carried away captive to be good, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
6 ‘For I will set My Eyes upon them for good. And I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not destroy them. And I will plant them and not root them out.
7 ‘And I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. And they shall be My people, and I will be their God. For they shall return to Me with their whole heart.
8 ‘And as the bad figs which cannot be eaten, they are so evil — surely thus says the LORD — so will I give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his princes, and the rest of Jerusalem that remains in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.
9 ‘I will give them as a terrible plague to all the kingdoms of the Earth, for a reproach and for a proverb, for a common talk and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.
10 ‘And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence among them, until they are destroyed in the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.’”
25 The Word that came to Jeremiah, concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, which was in the first year of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babel.
2 which Jeremiah the Prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3 “From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day (that is, the twenty-third year), the Word of the LORD has come to me. And I have spoken it to you, rising early and speaking. But you would not hear.
4 “And the LORD has sent to you all His servants, the Prophets, rising early and sending them. But you would not hear or incline your ears to obey.
5 “They said, ‘Everyone turn back now from his evil way, and from the wickedness of your inventions, and you shall dwell in the land that the LORD has given you, and to your fathers, forever and ever.
6 ‘And do not go after other gods, to serve them and to worship them. And do not provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands, and I will not punish you.
7 Nevertheless, you would not hear Me,’ says the LORD, ‘but have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.’
8 “Therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Because you have not heard My Words,
9 ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the North,’ says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babel, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations all around and will destroy them and make them an astonishment and a hissing and a continual desolation.
10 ‘Moreover, I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the noise of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
11 ‘And this whole land shall be desolate, and an astonishment. These nations shall serve the king of Babel for seventy years.
12 ‘And when the seventy years are completed, I will reckon with the king of Babel and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquities,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make it a perpetual desolation.
13 ‘And I will bring upon that land all My Words which I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this Book which Jeremiah has prophesied against all nations.
14 ‘For many nations and great kings shall be served by them. Thus will I recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.’
15 For thus has the LORD God of Israel spoken to me: ‘Take this cup of wine of indignation from My Hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
16 ‘And they shall drink and be moved and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.’”
17 Then I took the cup from the LORD’s Hand, and made all people drink to whom the LORD had sent me:
18 Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah and its kings and its princes, to make them desolate, an astonishment, a hissing and a curse, as it is this day,
19 Pharaoh, King of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,
20 and all sorts of people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod,
21 Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites,
22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the Isles who are beyond the sea,
23 and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who dwell in the uttermost corners,
24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of Arabia who dwell in the desert,
25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of [u]Elam, and all the kings of the Medes.
26 And all the kings of the North, far from and near to one another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are upon the Earth, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.
27 “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: “Drink and be drunken, and spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”
28 ‘But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand, to drink, then tell them, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘You shall certainly drink.
29 ‘For lo, I begin to plague the city where My Name is called upon. And should you go free? You shall not go acquitted. For I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the Earth,’ says the LORD of Hosts.”
30 ‘Therefore, prophesy all these words against them, and say to them, “The LORD shall roar from above and thrust out His Voice from His holy habitation. He shall roar upon His habitation, and cry aloud, as those who press the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the Earth.
31 “The sounds shall come to the ends of the Earth. For the LORD has a controversy with the nations and will enter into judgment with all flesh. He will give to the sword those who are wicked,” says the LORD.’
32 “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Behold, a plague shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the Earth.
33 ‘And the slain of the LORD shall be on that day from one end of the Earth to the other end of the Earth. They shall be neither mourned nor gathered nor buried but shall be as the dung upon the ground.
34 ‘Howl, you shepherds, and cry! And wallow in the ashes, you leader of the flock! For your days of slaughter and dispersion are fulfilled, and you shall fall like precious vessels.
35 ‘And the shepherds shall have no refuge, and the leader of the flock no escape.
36 ‘A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the leader of the flock, shall be heard. For the LORD has destroyed their pasture.
37 ‘And the best pastures are destroyed because of the wrath and indignation of the LORD.
38 He has forsaken His covert, as the lion. For their land is waste because of the wrath of the oppressor, and because of the wrath of His indignation.’”
26 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came this Word from the LORD, saying,
2 “Thus says the LORD: ‘Stand in the court of the LORD’s House. And speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’s House, all the words that I Command you to speak to them. Do not hold back a Word.
3 ‘Perhaps they will listen, and everyone will turn from his evil way, so that I may relent from the plague which I have determined to bring upon them because of the wickedness of their works.
4 ‘And you shall say to them, “Thus says the LORD: ‘If you will not hear Me, to walk in My Law which I have set before you,
5 ‘and to hear the words of My servants, the Prophets, whom I sent you (both rising up early and sending), and will not obey,
6 ‘Then I will make this House like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all nations of the Earth.’”’”
7 So the priests and the Prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the House of the LORD.
8 Now when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the LORD had Commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the Prophets and all the people took him, and said, “You shall die the death!
9 “Why have you prophesied in the Name of the LORD, saying, ‘This House shall be like Shiloh, and ‘This city shall be desolate without an inhabitant?’” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the House of the LORD.
10 And when the Princes of Judah heard of these things, they came up from the king’s house into the House of the LORD and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the LORD’s House.
11 Then spoke the priests and the Prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, “This man is worthy to die! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”
12 Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, “The LORD has sent me to prophesy all the things that you have heard against this House and against this city.
13 “Therefore, now, amend your ways and your works and hear the Voice of the LORD your God, so that the LORD may relent from the plague that He has pronounced against you.
14 “As for me, behold, I am in your hands. Do with me as you think good and right.
15 “But know for certain that if you put me to death, you shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city and upon its inhabitants. For truly the LORD has sent me to you, to speak all these words in your ears.”
16 Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the Prophets, “This man is not worthy to die! For he has spoken to us in the Name of the LORD our God!”
17 Then some of the elders of the land rose up and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,
18 “Micah the Morashite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be a heap, and the mountain of the House shall be as the high places of the forest.’
19 “Did Hezekiah, king of Judah, and all Judah, put him to death? Did he not fear the LORD and pray before the LORD? And did not the LORD relent from the plague that he had pronounced against them? But we procure great evil against our souls.”
20 And there was also a man who prophesied in the Name of the LORD: Urijah, the son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath Jearim; who prophesied against this city and against this land, according to all the words of Jeremiah.
21 Now when Jehoiakim the king, with all his men of power and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to kill him. But when Urijah heard it, he was afraid and fled, and went into Egypt.
22 Then Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt — Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain with him — into Egypt.
23 And they fetched Urijah out of Egypt and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the children of the people.
24 But the hand of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, was with Jeremiah, so that they would not give him into the hand of the people, to put him to death.
Jeremiah 24-26
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Jeremiah 24-26
New International Version
Two Baskets of Figs
24 After Jehoiachin[a](A) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs(B) placed in front of the temple of the Lord. 2 One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early;(C) the other basket had very bad(D) figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
3 Then the Lord asked me, “What do you see,(E) Jeremiah?”
“Figs,” I answered. “The good ones are very good, but the bad ones are so bad they cannot be eaten.”
4 Then the word of the Lord came to me: 5 “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I sent(F) away from this place to the land of the Babylonians.[b] 6 My eyes will watch over them for their good, and I will bring them back(G) to this land. I will build(H) them up and not tear them down; I will plant(I) them and not uproot them. 7 I will give them a heart to know(J) me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people,(K) and I will be their God, for they will return(L) to me with all their heart.(M)
8 “‘But like the bad(N) figs, which are so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the Lord, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah(O) king of Judah, his officials(P) and the survivors(Q) from Jerusalem, whether they remain in this land or live in Egypt.(R) 9 I will make them abhorrent(S) and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a reproach and a byword,(T) a curse[c](U) and an object of ridicule, wherever I banish(V) them. 10 I will send the sword,(W) famine(X) and plague(Y) against them until they are destroyed from the land I gave to them and their ancestors.(Z)’”
Seventy Years of Captivity
25 The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim(AA) son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar(AB) king of Babylon. 2 So Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people of Judah(AC) and to all those living in Jerusalem: 3 For twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of Josiah(AD) son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—the word of the Lord has come to me and I have spoken to you again and again,(AE) but you have not listened.(AF)
4 And though the Lord has sent all his servants the prophets(AG) to you again and again, you have not listened or paid any attention.(AH) 5 They said, “Turn(AI) now, each of you, from your evil ways and your evil practices, and you can stay in the land(AJ) the Lord gave to you and your ancestors for ever and ever. 6 Do not follow other gods(AK) to serve and worship them; do not arouse my anger with what your hands have made. Then I will not harm you.”
7 “But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused(AL) my anger with what your hands have made,(AM) and you have brought harm(AN) to yourselves.”
8 Therefore the Lord Almighty says this: “Because you have not listened to my words, 9 I will summon(AO) all the peoples of the north(AP) and my servant(AQ) Nebuchadnezzar(AR) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy[d](AS) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,(AT) and an everlasting ruin.(AU) 10 I will banish from them the sounds(AV) of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom,(AW) the sound of millstones(AX) and the light of the lamp.(AY) 11 This whole country will become a desolate wasteland,(AZ) and these nations will serve(BA) the king of Babylon seventy years.(BB)
12 “But when the seventy years(BC) are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon(BD) and his nation, the land of the Babylonians,[e] for their guilt,” declares the Lord, “and will make it desolate(BE) forever. 13 I will bring on that land all the things I have spoken against it, all that are written(BF) in this book and prophesied by Jeremiah against all the nations. 14 They themselves will be enslaved(BG) by many nations(BH) and great kings; I will repay(BI) them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”
The Cup of God’s Wrath
15 This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup(BJ) filled with the wine of my wrath and make all the nations to whom I send(BK) you drink it. 16 When they drink(BL) it, they will stagger(BM) and go mad(BN) because of the sword(BO) I will send among them.”
17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations to whom he sent(BP) me drink it: 18 Jerusalem(BQ) and the towns of Judah, its kings and officials, to make them a ruin(BR) and an object of horror and scorn,(BS) a curse[f](BT)—as they are today;(BU) 19 Pharaoh king(BV) of Egypt,(BW) his attendants, his officials and all his people, 20 and all the foreign people there; all the kings of Uz;(BX) all the kings of the Philistines(BY) (those of Ashkelon,(BZ) Gaza,(CA) Ekron, and the people left at Ashdod); 21 Edom,(CB) Moab(CC) and Ammon;(CD) 22 all the kings of Tyre(CE) and Sidon;(CF) the kings of the coastlands(CG) across the sea; 23 Dedan,(CH) Tema,(CI) Buz(CJ) and all who are in distant places[g];(CK) 24 all the kings of Arabia(CL) and all the kings of the foreign people(CM) who live in the wilderness; 25 all the kings of Zimri,(CN) Elam(CO) and Media;(CP) 26 and all the kings of the north,(CQ) near and far, one after the other—all the kingdoms(CR) on the face of the earth. And after all of them, the king of Sheshak[h](CS) will drink it too.
27 “Then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk(CT) and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword(CU) I will send among you.’ 28 But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink(CV), tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: You must drink it! 29 See, I am beginning to bring disaster(CW) on the city that bears my Name,(CX) and will you indeed go unpunished?(CY) You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword(CZ) on all(DA) who live on the earth,(DB) declares the Lord Almighty.’
30 “Now prophesy all these words against them and say to them:
“‘The Lord will roar(DC) from on high;
he will thunder(DD) from his holy dwelling(DE)
and roar mightily against his land.
He will shout like those who tread(DF) the grapes,
shout against all who live on the earth.
31 The tumult(DG) will resound to the ends of the earth,
for the Lord will bring charges(DH) against the nations;
he will bring judgment(DI) on all(DJ) mankind
and put the wicked to the sword,(DK)’”
declares the Lord.
32 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Look! Disaster(DL) is spreading
from nation to nation;(DM)
a mighty storm(DN) is rising
from the ends of the earth.”(DO)
33 At that time those slain(DP) by the Lord will be everywhere—from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered(DQ) up or buried,(DR) but will be like dung lying on the ground.
34 Weep and wail, you shepherds;(DS)
roll(DT) in the dust, you leaders of the flock.
For your time to be slaughtered(DU) has come;
you will fall like the best of the rams.[i](DV)
35 The shepherds will have nowhere to flee,
the leaders of the flock no place to escape.(DW)
36 Hear the cry(DX) of the shepherds,(DY)
the wailing of the leaders of the flock,
for the Lord is destroying their pasture.
37 The peaceful meadows will be laid waste
because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
38 Like a lion(DZ) he will leave his lair,
and their land will become desolate(EA)
because of the sword[j] of the oppressor(EB)
and because of the Lord’s fierce anger.(EC)
Jeremiah Threatened With Death
26 Early in the reign of Jehoiakim(ED) son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the Lord: 2 “This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard(EE) of the Lord’s house and speak to all the people of the towns of Judah who come to worship in the house of the Lord.(EF) Tell(EG) them everything I command you; do not omit(EH) a word. 3 Perhaps they will listen and each will turn(EI) from their evil ways. Then I will relent(EJ) and not inflict on them the disaster I was planning because of the evil they have done. 4 Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen(EK) to me and follow my law,(EL) which I have set before you, 5 and if you do not listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you again and again (though you have not listened(EM)), 6 then I will make this house like Shiloh(EN) and this city a curse[k](EO) among all the nations of the earth.’”
7 The priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speak these words in the house of the Lord. 8 But as soon as Jeremiah finished telling all the people everything the Lord had commanded(EP) him to say, the priests, the prophets and all the people seized(EQ) him and said, “You must die!(ER) 9 Why do you prophesy in the Lord’s name that this house will be like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted?”(ES) And all the people crowded(ET) around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10 When the officials(EU) of Judah heard about these things, they went up from the royal palace to the house of the Lord and took their places at the entrance of the New Gate(EV) of the Lord’s house. 11 Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man should be sentenced to death(EW) because he has prophesied against this city. You have heard it with your own ears!”(EX)
12 Then Jeremiah said to all the officials(EY) and all the people: “The Lord sent me to prophesy(EZ) against this house and this city all the things you have heard.(FA) 13 Now reform(FB) your ways and your actions and obey(FC) the Lord your God. Then the Lord will relent(FD) and not bring the disaster he has pronounced against you. 14 As for me, I am in your hands;(FE) do with me whatever you think is good and right. 15 Be assured, however, that if you put me to death, you will bring the guilt of innocent blood(FF) on yourselves and on this city and on those who live in it, for in truth the Lord has sent me to you to speak all these words(FG) in your hearing.”
16 Then the officials(FH) and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man should not be sentenced to death!(FI) He has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
17 Some of the elders of the land stepped forward and said to the entire assembly of people, 18 “Micah(FJ) of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“‘Zion(FK) will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble,(FL)
the temple hill(FM) a mound overgrown with thickets.’[l](FN)
19 “Did Hezekiah king of Judah or anyone else in Judah put him to death? Did not Hezekiah(FO) fear the Lord and seek(FP) his favor? And did not the Lord relent,(FQ) so that he did not bring the disaster(FR) he pronounced against them? We are about to bring a terrible disaster(FS) on ourselves!”
20 (Now Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim(FT) was another man who prophesied in the name of the Lord; he prophesied the same things against this city and this land as Jeremiah did. 21 When King Jehoiakim(FU) and all his officers and officials(FV) heard his words, the king was determined to put him to death.(FW) But Uriah heard of it and fled(FX) in fear to Egypt. 22 King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan(FY) son of Akbor to Egypt, along with some other men. 23 They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword(FZ) and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)(GA)
24 Furthermore, Ahikam(GB) son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, and so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 24:1 Hebrew Jeconiah, a variant of Jehoiachin
- Jeremiah 24:5 Or Chaldeans
- Jeremiah 24:9 That is, their names will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that they are cursed.
- Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.
- Jeremiah 25:12 Or Chaldeans
- Jeremiah 25:18 That is, their names to be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, to be seen by others as cursed
- Jeremiah 25:23 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads
- Jeremiah 25:26 Sheshak is a cryptogram for Babylon.
- Jeremiah 25:34 Septuagint; Hebrew fall and be shattered like fine pottery
- Jeremiah 25:38 Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint (see also 46:16 and 50:16); most Hebrew manuscripts anger
- Jeremiah 26:6 That is, its name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that it is cursed.
- Jeremiah 26:18 Micah 3:12
Titus 2
Revised Geneva Translation
Titus 2
Revised Geneva Translation
2 But you, speak things befitting to sound doctrine -
2 so that the older men are sober, honorable, temperate, sound in the faith, in love, and in patience;
3 the elder women likewise - so that they are in such behavior as becomes holiness (not false accusers, not subject to much wine, teachers of virtue);
4 so that they may instruct the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, love their children,
5 to be temperate, chaste, homemakers, good, subject to their own husbands (so that the Word of God is not blasphemed).
6 Exhort young men likewise, so that they are sober-minded.
7 In all things, show yourself to be an example of good works - with uncorrupted doctrine, gravity, integrity,
8 and sound speech that cannot be condemned - so that whoever opposes you may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.
9 Let servants be subject to their masters, and please them in all things—not questioning
10 or pilfering, but showing all good faithfulness—so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
11 For the grace of God which brings salvation to all mankind has appeared,
12 and teaches us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly lusts; and that we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world,
13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the Glory of the mighty God, and of our Savior, Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave Himself for us so that He might redeem us from all iniquity and cleanse us to be a peculiar people for Himself, zealous for good works.
15 Speak these things. And encourage and convict with all authority. See that no one despises you.
Titus 2
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Titus 2
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Doing Good for the Sake of the Gospel
2 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.(A) 2 Teach the older men(B) to be temperate,(C) worthy of respect, self-controlled,(D) and sound in faith,(E) in love and in endurance.
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers(F) or addicted to much wine,(G) but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women(H) to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled(I) and pure, to be busy at home,(J) to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,(K) so that no one will malign the word of God.(L)
6 Similarly, encourage the young men(M) to be self-controlled.(N) 7 In everything set them an example(O) by doing what is good.(P) In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.(Q)
9 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything,(R) to try to please them, not to talk back to them, 10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior(S) attractive.(T)
11 For the grace(U) of God has appeared(V) that offers salvation to all people.(W) 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions,(X) and to live self-controlled,(Y) upright and godly lives(Z) in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing(AA) of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,(AB) 14 who gave himself for us(AC) to redeem us from all wickedness(AD) and to purify(AE) for himself a people that are his very own,(AF) eager to do what is good.(AG)
15 These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.
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