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Titus 2:1-10

The Message Bible MSG

1 Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine.

2 Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance.

3 Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness.

4 By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children,

5 be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of their behavior.

6 Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives.

7 But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching,

8 your words solid and sane. Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around.

9 Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters - no back talk,

10 no petty thievery. Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior God.

New International Version NIV

1 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.

2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,

5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness

8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

9 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,

10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.