{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/wnt/titus/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:21:34.962Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WNT","book":"Titus","bookSlug":"titus","chapter":2,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":15},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits wholesome teaching."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They should school the young women to be  affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"but manifesting perfect fidelity and kind feeling, in order to bring honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope--the  Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be  specially His own, zealous for doing good works."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority."}],"citation":{"inline":"Titus 2 (WNT)","markdown":"[Titus 2](https://primebible.com/wnt/titus/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WNT. https://primebible.com/wnt/titus/2 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}