Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. New Living Translation Teach the older men to exercise self-control, to be worthy of respect, and to live wisely. They must have sound faith and be filled with love and patience. English Standard Version Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Berean Standard Bible Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. Berean Literal Bible The aged men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in endurance; King James Bible That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. New King James Version that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; New American Standard Bible Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. NASB 1995 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. NASB 1977 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Legacy Standard Bible Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance. Amplified Bible Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in steadfastness [Christlike in character]. Christian Standard Bible Older men are to be self-controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. Holman Christian Standard Bible Older men are to be level headed, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. American Standard Version that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: Aramaic Bible in Plain English And teach that Elders would be watchful in their minds, modest, pure, sound in faith, in love and in patience, Contemporary English Version Tell the older men to have self-control and to be serious and sensible. Their faith, love, and patience must never fail. Douay-Rheims Bible That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience. English Revised Version that aged men be temperate, grave, soberminded, sound in faith, in love, in patience: GOD'S WORD® Translation Tell older men to be sober. Tell them to be men of good character, to use good judgment, and to be well-grounded in faith, love, and endurance. Good News Translation Instruct the older men to be sober, sensible, and self-controlled; to be sound in their faith, love, and endurance. International Standard Version Older men are to be sober, serious, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. Literal Standard Version Elders [are] to be temperate, dignified, sober, sound in faith, in the love, in the endurance. Majority Standard Bible Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. New American Bible that older men should be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, love, and endurance. NET Bible Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. New Revised Standard Version Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, prudent, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. New Heart English Bible that older men should be sober-minded, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in patience: Webster's Bible Translation That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience; Weymouth New Testament Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience. World English Bible that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance, Young's Literal Translation aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Teaching Sound Doctrine1But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine. 2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. 3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.… Cross References 1 Timothy 1:2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Timothy 1:10 for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for anyone else who is averse to sound teaching 1 Timothy 1:14 And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 1 Timothy 3:2 An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 1 Timothy 5:1 Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers, Titus 1:13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith Philemon 1:9 I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well. Treasury of Scripture That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. the. Leviticus 19:32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. Job 12:12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Psalm 92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; sober. 1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. 1 Thessalonians 5:6,8 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober… 1 Timothy 3:2,11 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; … grave. Titus 2:7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 1 Timothy 3:4,8,11 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; … Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. temperate. Titus 1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Acts 24:25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. 1 Corinthians 9:25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. sound. Titus 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; in patience. 1 Timothy 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: Jump to Previous Aged Bid Charity Dignified Endurance Exhort Faith Grave Love Mind Minded Older Patience Perseverance Quiet Respect Robust Self-Controlled Sensible Serious Simple Sober Sober-Minded Sound Steadfastness Tastes Teach Temperate True. Wise WorthyJump to Next Aged Bid Charity Dignified Endurance Exhort Faith Grave Love Mind Minded Older Patience Perseverance Quiet Respect Robust Self-Controlled Sensible Serious Simple Sober Sober-Minded Sound Steadfastness Tastes Teach Temperate True. Wise WorthyTitus 2 1. Directions given unto Titus both for his doctrine and life.10. Of the duty of servants, and in general of all Christians. (2) That the aged men.--Not presbyters, or elders, in an official sense, but simply the "old men" in the congregations. Be sober.--In a more extended sense than the bare literal meaning of the word would give. Let the elder men be "thoughtful," in contrast with the thoughtlessness of careless youth. Grave.--And quietly earnest, in contrast with all passion and undue excitability. Temperate.--Discreet, or self-restrained, would be a better rendering for the Greek word. Sound in faith, in charity, in patience.--Here Paul the aged sums up for the aged men of Crete in these three words, so well known by all his devoted hearers then, by all the devout students of his theology in subsequent ages, the great principles out of which the true saint life springs--faith, love, patience. In the famous Pauline trilogy of virtues, in this place, "patience" takes the place of hope, because this brave patience, this enduring fortitude, especially becomes the old man waiting for death. In respect to these "three" they must be healthy, sound. The faith must not be adulterated with superstitions--the love must be chivalrous, not sentimental. It must be no partisan feeling, but a tender affection, broad and inclusive, as was St. Paul's and his Master Christ's. The patience must be no mere tame acquiescence in what seems to be the inevitable, but must be brave, enduring, suffering--if suffering comes--for the Lord's sake with a smile on the lips. "Not without reason," writes Calvin, "does St. Paul include in these three the sum of Christian perfections." It is with "faith" that we worship God--no prayer, no work of piety, can be severed from "faith." "Love" spreads its wings over all our duties to our neighbour; and "patience" must ever go hand in hand with both "faith" and "love." Without "patience" could "faith" hardly endure; and the affronts and unkindnesses of the world would, without this high virtue of patience, soon deaden and even destroy "love." Verse 2. - Aged for the aged, A.V.; temperate for sober, A.V.; sober-minded for temperate, A.V.; love for charity, A.V. Temperate (νηφάλιος); as 1 Timothy 3:2, (where see note). Grave (σεμνούς); as 1 Timothy 3:8, 11 (see too 1 Timothy 2:2; 1 Timothy 3:4). Sober-minded (σώφρονας); as Titus 1:8, note. Sound (ὑγιαίνοντας); see ver. 1, note, and Titus 1:13, where, as here, the word is applied to persons, as it is in its literal sense in 3 John 1:2. Faith... love... patience. We have the same triad in 1 Timothy 6:11. In 1 Corinthians 13:13 we find "faith, hope, love." In 1 Thessalonians 1:3 the apostle joins "work of faith, labor of love," and "patience of hope," which last phrase seems almost to identify patience and hope (cutup. too Romans 8:25; Romans 15:4). We must not miss the important warning, not only to have some kind of faith, love, and patience, but to be healthy and vigorous in our faith, love, and patience. There is a puny faith, a sickly love. and a misdirected patience.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Older [men]Πρεσβύτας (Presbytas) Noun - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 4246: An old man, an ambassador. From the same as presbuteros; an old man. are to be εἶναι (einai) Verb - Present Infinitive Active Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. temperate, νηφαλίους (nēphalious) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 3524: Sober, not intoxicated (with wine), temperate, vigilant. Or nephalios from nepho; sober, i.e. circumspect. dignified, σεμνούς (semnous) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 4586: Venerable, honorable, grave, serious, dignified. From sebomai; venerable, i.e. Honorable. self-controlled, σώφρονας (sōphronas) Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 4998: From the base of sozo and that of phren; safe in mind, i.e. Self-controlled. [and] sound ὑγιαίνοντας (hygiainontas) Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural Strong's 5198: From hugies; to have sound health, i.e. Be well; figuratively, to be uncorrupt. in faith, πίστει (pistei) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 4102: Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness. love, ἀγάπῃ (agapē) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. and τῇ (tē) Article - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. perseverance. ὑπομονῇ (hypomonē) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 5281: Endurance, steadfastness, patient waiting for. From hupomeno; cheerful endurance, constancy. 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