Teach the older man to be temperate, worthy of respect, self controlled and sound in faith in love and in endurance

Teach the older man to be temperate, worthy of respect, self controlled and sound in faith in love and in endurance

Tit 2:2

² Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

1 Tim 3:2

² Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, ³ not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

Tit 2: 5, 6, 12

⁴ Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

⁶ Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. ¹² It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age

Tit 1:8

⁷ Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. ⁸ Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. 

We learn the following from the above verses

1)      Teach the older man to be temperate, worthy of respect, self controlled and sound in faith in love and in endurance

2)     Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

3)     Urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,  to be self-controlled and pure

4)     Encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

5)     For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.  It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age

6)     Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain.  Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined.