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Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good. In this way[a] they will train[b] the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be self-controlled,[c] pure, fulfilling their duties at home,[d] kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message[e] of God may not be discredited.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Titus 2:4 tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).
  2. Titus 2:4 tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (sōphronizō), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.
  3. Titus 2:5 tn Or “sensible.”
  4. Titus 2:5 tn Grk “domestic,” “keeping house.”
  5. Titus 2:5 tn Or “word.”
  6. Titus 2:5 tn Or “slandered.”

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, busy at home, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be slandered.

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