Titus 2:1-15

Titus 2:1-8:

^2:1But you must utter-forth the-things-which become the teaching being sound: ^.2elderly-men to be sober, reverential, sound-thinking, being sound with the belief, with the love¹, with the patient-endurance; ^.3likewise elderly-women (to be) in constitution becoming-sacred-women, not devilish, nor having been enslaved² with much wine, beautiful-teachers, ^.4in order that they may sound-thinkingly-cause the young-women to be husband-loving, child-loving, ^.5sound-thinking, pure, good home-workers, subjecting-themselves to (their) own husbands in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed; ^.6likewise the younger-men you must encourage to soundly-think ^.7concerning all-things presenting yourself a type of beautiful works, in the teaching (presenting) incorruptness, reverential(-behavior), ^.8a sound word not-known-against, in order that the (person) out-from contrary may be caused-shame having nothing slight to say concerning us;

You (Titus) must speak the things which are distinguished, suitable, proper for/to the teaching being sound (the word "teaching" includes the teaching itself and the action of teaching it, and this word "sound" refers to being healthy - the instruction or doctrine being healthy, in good health, well):

elderly (old in age) men to be…
- sober (free from intoxicants; figuratively: be in control of their minds and bodies so that they are receptive to what God wants to make known to them and they are not in a stupor),
- reverential (having deference to God and all the things of God and thus are deserving of reverence and respect from others towards themselves; in the state of behaving reverentially),
- sound-thinking (having thoughts in their minds that are sound, safe in God’s viewpoint, with prudence, thoughts in alignment with their salvation),
- being sound (this word "sound" refer to being healthy, in good health, well)…
  - with the belief (in/by the faith relative-to God and the things of God),
  - with the love¹ (the word "love¹" comes from the Greek word agape which is God's kind of love - in/by the kind of love that God loves with),
  - with the patient-endurance (in/by the bearing-up, holding, enduring, remaining upwards or upright relative-to God and the things of God under any obstacles);
in the same manner elderly (old in age) women to be…
- in constitution becoming-sacred-women (within their position, standing, level place of action and behavior they should be distinguished, suitable, proper for/to/with women who are consecrated and devoted to God; the word “sacred” comes from the same root word that gives us the words: temple, priest, Jerusalem, temple utensils and services and areas and all belonging to God),
- not devilish (not behaving in a manner that is on a par with the devil throwing, casting things through people, like stabbing a person from outside through the person and out the other side with an accusation, slander, etc),
- nor having been enslaved and continuing enslaved with much wine (made a slave of a lot of alcohol and staying a slave to it),
- beautiful-teachers (teachers of beautiful things, instructors of what has a manifested decorous, harmonious and acceptable goodness from God’s viewpoint),
  - for the purpose and result that these elderly women would cause with sound thinking (this is the verb form of “sound-thinking” in verse 2 above – by having thoughts in their minds that are sound, safe in God’s viewpoint, with prudence, by having thoughts in alignment with their salvation they would cause)…
the young women to be…
- husband-loving (lovers of their husbands with the brotherly or friendly kind of love),
- child-loving (lovers of the children they give birth to with the brotherly or friendly kind of love),
- sound-thinking (as in verse 2 above),
- pure (uncontaminated from God's viewpoint by any bad-thing which may be near-by),
- good home-workers (women who expend their energy at home in a manner that is in alignment with God Who is good and sets the standard for what is good [some Greek texts have the word meaning: keepers of the house, watchers of the home]),
- subjecting themselves to their own husbands (causing themselves to be in submission, arrange themselves in the position of being underneath, under the authority of their own husbands in the walk/behavior category, not other people's husbands, their own adult-males, grown-men - translated "husbands" depending on the context)
  - for the purpose and result that the word of God may not be blasphemed (that the spoken account of God’s inner-thoughts, His word, would not be evilly-spoken-of, treated with lack of Godly reverential-respect, calumniated);
in the same manner the younger men you (Titus) must encourage to soundly-think (exhort them to think soundly, as verses 2, 4 and 5 above, call them beside you as a concerned father or mother would invite their children beside them helping them to do what is right) about all things (around, with reference to everything) presenting yourself a type (having, holding, offering yourself beside others whereby you are a type)….

The word “type” means: a mark, impression, pattern, as an old typewriter would impress the shape of the required letter on a piece of paper, an example for the younger men and others believers to copy and follow.

[Note: verbs with a superscript 2 (²) immediately following them indicate the "perfect" tense - details are provided in the "Relevant Notes" link of this study.]

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