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Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled,[a] sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.[b] Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good. In this way[c] they will train[d] the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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  1. Titus 2:2 tn Or “sensible.”
  2. Titus 2:2 sn Temperate…in endurance. See the same cluster of virtues in 1 Thess 1:3 and 1 Cor 13:13.
  3. Titus 2:4 tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).
  4. Titus 2:4 tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (sōphronizō), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.