Titus 2:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² training us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions, and to live sober, upright, and godly lives in this world,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² It has trained us to reject and renounce all ungodliness (irreligion) and worldly (passionate) desires, to live discreet (temperate, self-controlled), upright, devout (spiritually whole) lives in this present world,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

Common English Bible

¹² It educates us so that we can live sensible, ethical, and godly lives right now by rejecting ungodly lives and the desires of this world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² instructing us to reject impiety and worldly desires, so that we may live soberly and justly and piously in this age,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Instructing us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, and justly, and godly in this world,

Titus 2:12 Cross References

Psalm 105:45

to the end that they should keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 4:3

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

Ezekiel 36:27

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.

Matthew 12:32

And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Matthew 28:20

teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.”

Luke 1:6

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

Luke 1:75

in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

John 14:30

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me;

John 6:25

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”

Acts 24:16

So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward God and toward men.

Acts 24:25

And as he argued about justice and self-control and future judgment, Felix was alarmed and said, “Go away for the present; when I have an opportunity I will summon you.”

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 8:13

for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience that we have behaved in the world, and still more toward you, with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.

Galatians 1:4

who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father;

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

Ephesians 2:2

in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

Colossians 1:22

he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him,

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

But concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

1 Timothy 4:12

Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Timothy 6:17

As for the rich in this world, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on uncertain riches but on God who richly furnishes us with everything to enjoy.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction.

2 Timothy 3:12

Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by men and hating one another;

Hebrews 8:11

And they shall not teach every one his fellow or every one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

2 Peter 2:9

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

2 Peter 3:11

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,

1 John 2:27

but the anointing which you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that any one should teach you; as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie, just as it has taught you, abide in him.

1 John 2:6

he who says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.

1 John 5:19

We know that we are of God, and the whole world is in the power of the evil one.

Jude 1:18

they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”

Revelation 14:12

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.