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Titus 2:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

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they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.

[For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

receive her in the Lord as saints should receive one another, and give her any help she may require. She has been a help herself to many people, including myself.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you — that is the proper course for saints to take;

Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food.

[Give up being a total abstainer; take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent attacks of illness.]

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers,




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