Titus 2:2-4

2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, ¹  sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. ²  2:3 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. 2:4 In this way ³  they will train ⁴  the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

[2:2]  ¹ tn Or “sensible.”

[2:2]  ² sn Temperate…in endurance. See the same cluster of virtues in 1 Thess 1:3 and 1 Cor 13:13.

[2:4]  ³ tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).

[2:4]  ⁴ tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (swfronizw), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.