Discovery BoxTitus 2:2-5 
Context2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, 1 sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. 2 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 3 they will train 4 the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, 2:5 to be self-controlled, 5 pure, fulfilling their duties at home, 6 kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message 7 of God may not be discredited. 8
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 “domestic,” “keeping house.”
7 tn Or “word.”
8 tn Or “slandered.”
