The Message Bible MSG
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine.
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tu autem loquere quae decet sanam doctrinam
2 Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance.
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senes ut sobrii sint pudici prudentes sani fide dilectione patientia
3 Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness.
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anus similiter in habitu sancto non criminatrices non vino multo servientes bene docentes
4 By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children,
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ut prudentiam doceant adulescentulas ut viros suos ament filios diligant
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.
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prudentes castas domus curam habentes benignas subditas suis viris ut non blasphemetur verbum Dei
6 Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives.
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iuvenes similiter hortare ut sobrii sint
7 But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching,
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in omnibus te ipsum praebe exemplum bonorum operum in doctrina integritatem gravitatem
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.
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verbum sanum inreprehensibilem ut is qui ex adverso est vereatur nihil habens malum dicere de nobis
9 Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters - no back talk,
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servos dominis suis subditos esse in omnibus placentes non contradicentes
10 no petty thievery. Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior God.
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non fraudantes, sed in omnibus fidem bonam ostendentes ut doctrinam salutaris nostri Dei ornent in omnibus
11 God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone!
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apparuit enim gratia Dei salutaris omnibus hominibus
12 We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now,
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erudiens nos ut abnegantes impietatem et saecularia desideria sobrie et iuste et pie vivamus in hoc saeculo
13 and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears.
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expectantes beatam spem et adventum gloriae magni Dei et salvatoris nostri Iesu Christi
14 He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness.
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qui dedit semet ipsum pro nobis ut nos redimeret ab omni iniquitate et mundaret sibi populum acceptabilem sectatorem bonorum operum
15 Tell them all this. Build up their courage, and discipline them if they get out of line. You're in charge. Don't let anyone put you down.
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haec loquere et exhortare et argue cum omni imperio nemo te contemnat
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.