Titus 2:2
Elders [are] to be temperate, dignified, sober, sound in faith, in the love, in the endurance.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
In Context
1But you—speak what is suitable [according] to the sound teaching.
Cross References
Job 12:12With the very aged [is] wisdom, || And [with] length of days [is] understanding.
Proverbs 16:31Grey hairs [are] a crown of beauty, || It is found in the way of righteousness.
Mark 5:15and they come to Jesus, and see the demoniac, sitting, and clothed, and right-minded—him having had the legion—and they were afraid;
Acts 24:25and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and self-control, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, “For the present be going, and having time, I will call for you”;
1 Corinthians 9:25and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible;
2 Corinthians 5:13for whether we were beside ourselves, [it was] to God; whether we be of sound mind, [it is] to you,
Matthew Henry on Titus 2:2-11
Relative Duties. ( a. d. 66.) 1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of… Read the whole commentary →