Titus 2
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But you, speak what is proper for sound teaching:
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[that the] aged [men] be sober
minded, dignified, prudent, sound in faith, in agape-love, in endurance;
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[that the] aged [women] likewise [be] in behavior worthy of reverence, not slanderous, nor enslaved by much wine, teaching what is good,
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in order that they
encourage the young [women] to be husband philia-lovers, child-philia-lovers,
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prudent, pure, working at home, good, being subject to their own
husbands, in order that the word of God not be slandered.
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Likewise be
exhorting the young men to be prudent in everything,
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showing yourself
to be [a] pattern of good works in teaching, [showing] incorruption, dignity,
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[speaking] sound words beyond reproach, in order that the opponent be shamed, having nothing to be saying concerning us [about how we are] worthless.
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[Be exhorting] slaves to be being subject
to their own masters1
() in everything, to be giving satisfaction, not
contradicting,
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not misappropriating, but showing all good
trustworthiness, in order that the teaching of God our savior be adorned in
everything.
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For the grace of God bringing salvation has appeared to
all men,
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instructing us, in order that, denying the impious and
worldly lusts, we zoe-live2
prudently and justly and piously in the present age,
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awaiting the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God
and savior Christ Jesus,
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who gave himself in our behalf, in order
that he redeem us from all lawlessness and cleanse to himself [a] special
people, zealots of good works.
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Be speaking these [things] and be exhorting
and be reproving with all command; let3
no one be
disregarding you.
1DESPOTES "DES-poh-tays"
(δεσπoτης )
`Lord': owner and absolute master of slaves. Whereas DESPOTES emphasizes ownership and complete right of disposal, KURIOS (also translated `Lord') emphasizes power—having it, having the right to wield it. Only slaves have a DESPOTES; even free persons may have a KURIOS.
DESPOTES occurs in
Luke.2:29,
Acts.4:24,
1Tim.6:1,
1Tim.6:2,
2Time.2:21,
Tit.2:9,
1Pet.2:18,
2Pet.2:1,
Jude.1:4,
Rev.6:10. "Lord" in every other case is KURIOS (κυριoς )
2from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example:
Matt.9:18,
Matt.27:63,
Luke.2:36,
Acts.25:24,
Rom.7:2,
2Cor.1:8,
1Thes.4:17,
1Tim.5:10,
Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of
Luke.15:13,
Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see
Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see
1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See
John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.
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