Discovery BoxTitus 2:2 
Context2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, 1 sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. 2
Titus 2:4
Context2:4 In this way 3 they will train 4 the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Titus 2:6
Context2:6 Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled, 5
Titus 2:12
Context2:12 It trains us 6 to reject godless ways 7 and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
1 tn Or “sensible.”
2 sn Temperate…in endurance. See the same cluster of virtues in 1 Thess 1:3 and 1 Cor 13:13.
3 tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).
4 tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (swfronizw), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.
5 tn Or “sensible.”
6 tn Grk “training us” (as a continuation of the previous clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 12 by translating the participle παιδεύουσα (paideuousa) as a finite verb and supplying the pronoun “it” as subject.
7 tn Grk “ungodliness.”
