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Titus 2:3-5

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2:3 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. 2:4 In this way 1  they will train 2  the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, 2:5 to be self-controlled, 3  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, 4  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message 5  of God may not be discredited. 6 

1 tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).

2 tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (swfronizw), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.

3 tn Or “sensible.”

4 tn Grk “domestic,” “keeping house.”

5 tn Or “word.”

6 tn Or “slandered.”



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