Titus 2:3
Greek Text— Titus 2:3and 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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but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let’s press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.
Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.
As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:
Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;
to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.
Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,
The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!”
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.
After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. I have kept those whom you have given me. None of them is lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.
Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
For you will save the afflicted people, but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.
Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,
“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.
Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
Soldiers also asked him, saying, “What about us? What must we do?” He said to them, “Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages.”
that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.