提多书 2
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
教导纯正的教义
2 你的教导要符合纯正的教义。 2 劝年长的男子要节制、庄重、自律，有全备的信心、爱心和耐心。 3 劝年长的妇女要过敬虔的生活，不说长道短，不做酒的奴隶，要以身作则。 4 这样，她们就能教导年轻的妇女爱丈夫、爱儿女、 5 自制、贞洁，持家、和善、顺服丈夫，免得上帝的道被人毁谤。
6 劝勉年轻的男子要自制。 7 你自己要在各样的善行上做众人的榜样，在教导上要诚恳、认真、 8 言语纯全、无可指责，让那些反对的人无话可说、自觉羞愧。
9 劝勉做奴仆的要凡事顺服主人，让主人满意，不顶撞主人， 10 不偷拿主人的东西，为人要忠信可靠，好凡事尊崇我们救主上帝的教导。
11 因为上帝拯救世人的恩典已经显明了， 12 这恩典教导我们除掉不敬虔的心和世俗的私欲，在今世过自律、公义、敬畏上帝的生活， 13 怀着美好的盼望等候耶稣基督——我们伟大的上帝和救主的荣耀显现。 14 主耶稣为我们牺牲自己，要救赎我们脱离一切罪恶，并洁净我们，使我们做祂的子民，成为热心行善的人。
15 你要讲明这些事，运用各样权柄劝勉人、责备人，别让人轻看你。
Titus 2
J.B. Phillips New Testament
Good character should follow good teaching
2 1-8 Now you must tell them the sort of character which should spring from sound teaching. The old men should be temperate, serious, wise—spiritually healthy through their faith and love and patience. Similarly the old women should be reverent in their behaviour, should not make unfounded complaints and should not be over-fond of wine. They should be examples of the good life, so that the younger women may learn to love their husbands and their children, to be sensible and chaste, home-lovers, kind-hearted and willing to adapt themselves to their husbands—a good advertisement for the Christian faith. The young men, too, you should urge to take life seriously, letting your own life stand as a pattern of good living. In all your teaching show the strictest regard for truth, and show that you appreciate the seriousness of the matters you are dealing with. Your speech should be unaffected and logical, so that your opponent may feel ashamed at finding nothing in which to pick holes.
The duty of slaves—and of us all
9-10 Slaves should be told that it is their duty as Christians to obey their masters and to give them satisfactory service in every way. They are not to “answer back” or to be light-fingered, but they are to show themselves utterly trustworthy, a living testimonial to the teaching of God our saviour.
11-14 For the grace of God, which can save every man, has now become known, and it teaches us to have no more to do with godlessness or the desires of this world but to live, here and now, responsible, honourable and God-fearing lives. And while we live this life we hope and wait for the glorious d?nouement of the Great God and of Jesus Christ our saviour. For he gave himself for us all, that he might rescue us from all our evil ways and make for himself a people of his own, clean and pure, with our hearts set upon living a life that is good.
15 Tell men of these things, Titus. Urge them to action, using a reprimand where necessary with all the authority of God’s minister—and as such let no one treat you with contempt.
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