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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.”

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good, that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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