By: Rev. Lynwood F. Mundy
Titus 2:1-8
Qualities of a Sound Church
2:1 But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:
2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
3 the older women likewise, that they are reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things—
4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 to be discreet, chaste, (1 Tim. 5:14) homemakers, good, (1 Cor. 14:34; 1 Tim. 2:11) obedient to their own husbands, (Rom. 2:24) that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
6 Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,
7 in all things showing yourself to be (Phil. 3:17; 1 Tim. 4:12) a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, (Eph. 6:24) incorruptibility,
8 (NU omits incorruptibility) sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of (NU, M us) you.
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Print.
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