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Titus 2:8

and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

In Context

7and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

9Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,

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Cross References

Mark 12:17"What is Caesar's," replied Jesus, "pay to Caesar--and what is God's, pay to God." And they wondered exceedingly at Him.

Mark 12:32So the Scribe said to Him, "Rightly, in very truth, Rabbi, have you said that He stands alone, and there is none but He;

Luke 13:17When He had said this, all His opponents were ashamed, while the whole multitude was delighted at the many glorious things continually done by Him.

2 Thessalonians 3:14and if any one refuses to obey these our written instructions, mark that man and hold no communication with him--so that he may be made to feel ashamed.

1 Timothy 6:3So teach and exhort. If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome instructions--those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that harmonizes with true godliness,

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 →

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