Titus 2:6

6 Likewise, urge ¹the younger men to be self-controlled.

Titus 2:6 Meaning and Commentary

Titus 2:6

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
] Temperate, chaste, modest, moderate, wise, and prudent in all things: this is said to Titus, as being his province to instruct and exhort the young men; as it were proper and convenient for aged women to teach the young women how they should behave and conduct themselves.

Titus 2:6 In-Context

4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

7 Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

8 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Timothy 5:1