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Tito 2

ARC · Chapter 2/3

1Tu, porém, falla o que convém á sã doutrina:

2Aos velhos, que sejam sobrios, graves, prudentes, sãos na fé, na caridade, e na paciencia;

3Ás velhas, similhantemente, que sejam sérias no seu viver, como convém a sanctas, não calumniadoras, não dadas a muito vinho, mestras no bem;

4Para que ensinem as moças a serem prudentes, a amarem seus maridos, a amarem seus filhos,

5A serem moderadas, castas, boas caseiras, sujeitas a seus maridos; para que a palavra de Deus não seja blasphemada.

6Exhorta similhantemente os mancebos a que sejam moderados.

7Em tudo te dá por exemplo de boas obras; na doutrina mostra incorrupção, gravidade, sinceridade,

8Palavra sã e irreprehensivel, para que o adversario se envergonhe, não tendo nenhum mal que dizer de nós.

9Exhorta os servos a que se sujeitem a seus senhores, e em tudo agradem, não contradizendo,

10Não defraudando, antes mostrando toda a boa lealdade, para que em tudo adornem a doutrina de Deus, nosso Salvador.

11Porque a graça de Deus se ha manifestado, trazendo salvação a todos os homens,

12Ensinando-nos que, renunciando á impiedade e ás concupiscencias mundanas, vivamos n'este presente seculo sobria, e justa, e piamente,

13Aguardando a bemaventurada esperança e o apparecimento da gloria do grande Deus e nosso Senhor Jesus Christo;

14O qual se deu a si mesmo por nós para nos remir de toda a iniquidade, e purificar para si mesmo um povo particular, zeloso de boas obras.

15Falla d'isto, e exhorta e reprehende com toda a auctoridade. Ninguem te despreze.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Paul instructs Titus to teach appropriate conduct for the different groups in the church — older people, women, young people, and servants — so that their lives reflect well on God's teaching. He reminds them that God's grace teaches us to live righteously while we wait for Christ's return.

Explanation

The specific instructions for each age and social group reflect the customs and social structures of the first century, but the central principle remains just as relevant today: daily life should confirm, not contradict, the message one professes to believe. The phrase about 'looking for that blessed hope' ties everyday behavior to the future hope of Jesus' return, joining ethics and eschatology together. The application for today is that the credibility of faith is proven day by day — in how we treat family, work, and relationships — far more than in what we say.

Fun facts

  • The phrase 'our great God and Savior Jesus Christ' (2:13) is one of the texts most often used by theologians to defend the deity of Jesus, since the original Greek construction applies both titles — God and Savior — to the same person.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Tito 2:1Paul moves from the chapter on church organization to specific instructions by group — older men, older women, young women, young men, servants — a common format for ethical teaching at the time, known as a household code. The repeated word ‘sound’ ties the practical behavior of each group to the idea of healthy teaching.
  2. Tito 2:2Paul begins the group-by-group instructions by asking that older men be sober, grave, temperate, and sound in faith, in charity, and in patience.
  3. Tito 2:3To the older women, Paul calls for reverent, respectable behavior, free of gossip and excessive drinking, and asks that they teach what is good to the younger women.
  4. Tito 2:4The role of these older women included teaching the younger women to love their husbands and children, a practical form of mentoring within the community.
  5. Tito 2:5The list of advice for younger women continues with self-control, purity, and devotion to the home, always so that the Christian faith would not gain a bad name on the outside.
  6. Tito 2:6For the young men, Paul’s advice is short and direct: self-control, the same core value he asks of nearly every group on the list.
  7. Tito 2:7Paul asks Titus himself to be the first practical example of all this, showing integrity and seriousness both in life and in what he teaches.
  8. Tito 2:8Paul hopes that Titus’s teaching will be so sound that not even opponents of the faith will find any real ground for criticism.
  9. Tito 2:9As in other letters of Paul, household slavery appears here as a normal, legal part of the society of the time, present even within the churches of Crete. Paul instructs Christian slaves to honest, loyal conduct, tying this to the goal that the Christian faith not be spoken ill of by outsiders.
  10. Tito 2:10Paul finishes the group-by-group list of instructions, begun with the slaves in the previous verse, calling for complete honesty, in a way that adorns the teaching of God our Savior.
  11. Tito 2:11Paul has just given specific instructions for every social group in the household, including the slaves, the most disadvantaged group on the list. Now he generalizes: the grace he describes is reserved for no class, but reaches everyone, of every position in society.
  12. Tito 2:12Paul sums up what this grace of God, mentioned in the previous verse, teaches in practice: denying ungodliness, and living soberly, righteously, and godly.
  13. Tito 2:13The Greek grammar of this verse is debated among translators: it may be describing God and Jesus Christ as two distinct figures, or it may be calling Jesus Christ directly ‘the great God’ — scholars are divided on the more accurate reading. Either way, the verse describes a future hope tied to the return of Christ.
  14. Tito 2:14‘A peculiar people’ echoes an Old Testament expression used to describe Israel as a people chosen and set apart for God. Paul applies the same idea to the Christians of Crete, who came mostly from outside the Jewish tradition, showing that this status of a special people is no longer exclusive to a single nation.
  15. Tito 2:15Paul asks Titus to teach these things with full authority, letting no one despise him, a practical summary of the whole chapter.

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