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Titus 2:1-15

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Titus 2:1-15 Titus 2:1-15: But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in...

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

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Final Instructions and Benediction 12  We   ask   you ,   brothers ,   to   respect   those   who   labor   among   you   and   are   over   you   in   the   Lord   and   admonish   you ,   13  and   to   esteem   them   very   highly   in   love   because   of   their   work .   Be   at   peace   among   yourselves .   14  And   we   urge   you ,   brothers ,   admonish   the   idle ,   encourage   the   fainthearted ,   help   the   weak ,   be   patient   with   them   all .   15  See   that   no   one   repays   anyone   evil   for   evil ,   but   always   seek   to   do   good   to   one   anoth...