Titus 2:2
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Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
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sober--Translated "vigilant," as sober men alone can be (Ti1 3:2). But "sober" here answers to "not given to wine," Tit 2:3; Tit 1:7. grave--"dignified"; behaving with reverent propriety. temperate--"self-restrained"; "discreet" [ALFORD], (Tit 1:8; Ti1 2:9). faith . . . charity [love] . . . patience--combined in Ti1 6:11. "Faith, hope, charity" (Co1 13:13). "Patience," Greek, "enduring perseverance," is the attendant on, and is supported by, "hope" (Co1 13:7; Th1 1:3). It is the grace which especially becomes old men, being the fruit of ripened experience derived from trials overcome (Rom 5:3).
Open source ↗The apostle here directs Titus about the faithful discharge of his own office generally (Tit 2:1), and particularly as to several sorts of persons (Tit 2:2-10) and gives the grounds of these and of other following directions (Tit 2:11-14), with a summary direction in the close (Tit 2:15).
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