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Proper Conduct for Christians

Chapter 2

Teach What Is Consistent with Sound Doctrine.[a] As for you, teach what is consistent with sound doctrine. Exhort the older men to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 2:1 The moral rules set forth here could also have been voiced by a Stoic philosopher of the time. The author does not criticize the social climate of his day, but he wants the Christian communities to be models of honesty and dignity. He describes a new spirit: charity. Christians of all ages and all conditions who form the Church must show by their most ordinary actions that they live for God. On these matters, see Eph 5:21—6:9; Col 3:18-21.