| 2:1 | Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine. |
| 2:2 | Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance. |
| 2:3 | Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. |
| 2:4 | By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, |
| 2:5 | be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of their behavior. |
| 2:6 | Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives. |
| 2:7 | But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching, |
| 2:8 | your words solid and sane. Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around. |
| 2:9 | Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters--no back talk, |
| 2:10 | no petty thievery. Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior God. |
| 2:11 | God's readiness to give and forgive is now public. Salvation's available for everyone! |
| 2:12 | We're being shown how to turn our backs on a godless, indulgent life, and how to take on a God-filled, God-honoring life. This new life is starting right now, |
| 2:13 | and is whetting our appetites for the glorious day when our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, appears. |
| 2:14 | He offered himself as a sacrifice to free us from a dark, rebellious life into this good, pure life, making us a people he can be proud of, energetic in goodness. |
| 2:15 | Tell them all this. Build up their courage, and discipline them if they get out of line. You're in charge. Don't let anyone put you down. |
Titus 2 - The Message Bible
