What is titus 2

Teach Sound Doctrine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, t pure, u working at home, kind, and v submissive to their own husbands, w that the word of God may not be reviled.

Read more Share Copy. Or healthy ; also verses 2 , 8. Tt Ge Ne 1 Ti 1 Pe 1 Pe For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos , see Preface. Col Mt Php Send him to the second chapter of the Epistle to Titus for a complete answer. But as for you : This sets Titus apart from the people described at the end of Titus 1. They may teach legalism and fables, but Titus was to teach the things which are proper for sound doctrine.

Things which are proper for sound doctrine : The idea behind this phrase has to do with right living , not just right thinking.

The Bible is a book that tells us how to live. It is the height of hypocrisy to say that we believe its truth if we ignore how it tells us to live our lives. Paul simply wants Titus to fulfill the command of Jesus in Matthew Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. The older men : Titus had some older men among the Christians in Crete. They had to be approached with love and wisdom, or they might easily be offended when taught by a younger man like Titus.

Older men : Paul wanted Titus to know that they must live with the maturity and wisdom that their years should give them. This means sober, reverent, and temperate lives.

The command to teach these things means that they do not come automatically with age. Older men : They must also have stability, being stable in the right things: sound in faith, in love, in patience. Patience is the great ancient Greek word hupomone.

It means a steadfast and active endurance, not a passive waiting. Older men are not to just patiently wait around until they pass on to the next world. They are to actively endure the challenges of life; even the challenges of old age. The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—that they admonish the young women.

The older women likewise : Just as Titus had to give special consideration to the older men , also must he keep in mind how to approach the older women. They have their own set of temptations and opportunities.

Reverent in behavior, not slanderers : The idea behind behavior includes a suggestion of dress and how a woman carries herself. The conduct of the older women must reveal that they regard life as sacred in all of its aspects. Not given to much wine : This was a common failing of older women in Roman and Greek culture.

Paul recognizes that this special challenge needs special instruction. The first has already been met in 1 Timothy and the second in 1 Timothy Teachers of good things : If the older women have special challenges, they also have special opportunities. God can use their wisdom and experience as they admonish the young women.

This gives the older women something positive to live towards, instead of the negative things of slander and alcohol abuse. The young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

Instead, he was to equip and encourage the older women to teach the young women. It simply means that it was wrong — and dangerous — for Titus to make the young women a focus of his ministry. The older women should. To love their husbands, to love their children : Instruction for the young women begins with home matters.

God has given them a strategic position of influence and assistance to their husbands and their children , and they must let love dominate their influence and assistance. Paul says that love for husbands and children must be taught. Certainly, aspects of this love are inborn. But other aspects — especially aspects that reflect the self-giving sacrifice of Jesus — must be taught. To be discreet, chaste, homemakers : The young women must be taught these attitudes discreet, chaste and skills homemakers.

That the word of God may not be blasphemed : This shows how important it is for the older women to teach these things, and for the younger women to learn them. Because this life was all there was, hopelessness led to drunkenness. Coming to Christ changed everything, but old habits are hard to break. The old ways of their husbands would come back, old pains from emotional and physical abuse would resurface, and the temptation to slip back to the intemperance of slavery to wine would grow strong.

Lack of physical control of any appetite points to a spiritual immaturity. Both Timothy and Titus were told to beware of women returning to their old habits in this realm of drinking. There are so many forms of alcohol never imagined in the Biblical times that can be abused, plus drugs both acceptable and unacceptable kinds that can be abused, tobacco that can be abused,, wonderful varieties of food that can be abused, beautiful varieties of fashionable clothing that change with every season that can be abused, housing options, exercise options, recreation options—all that can be abused, and become addictions.

What ever we do is to be tempered by the glory of God. He must be the object and focus of all we do. The fourth type of godly behavior in Titus 2 women is spiritual integrity--godly women live what they teach. They train others in the pattern they have learned. Their walk speaks louder than their talk. They do not overindulge themselves, they are not overweight-gluttons, they are not pleasure-hungry, and they are not malicious-talkers. These godly older women were noble in everything and in the way they lived life they taught by their actions what is good!

Titus was to encourage these older women to develop a ministry of teaching younger women what is good. For every woman in this church there are some older and some younger. To those older, you are to look and see if they are an example of Christ—if they are, ask them to show you what they have learned and how they do it.

For those who are younger, you are to seek to get into their lives and help them bring every area of their lives under the gracious Lordship of Jesus Christ. If you have children that is where you must start.

If they are grown and gone—ask God to begin filling your lives with younger women into whom you can prayerfully pour the love and wisdom of Christ gleaned from His Word, and by your years of walking in the Spirit! N 7 In everything set them an example O by doing what is good. P 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.

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