to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Titus 2:5 in context
Titus 2:2–8
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that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,
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and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
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that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
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to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
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Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.
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In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
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and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.
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