Step Into Faith

Chapter Reflection

This chapter is full of ordinary life being made luminous: old men, older women, young women, young men, servants, and teachers all placed under the same quiet gravity of “sound doctrine.” The repeated concern is not mere outward respectability, but a life that does not distort the word of God, as if human conduct can either veil or display the truth already given. The surprising center is grace itself: it has “appeared to all men,” and it does not merely pardon from afar but trains, heals, and makes a people eager for good works. Christ is named as both the great God and our Savior, the one who gives himself to redeem and purify, so that holiness is not cramped fear but shared participation in a blessed hope. The chapter shows a world where freedom is real and watched over, where life can be disciplined into beauty, and where God’s saving love gathers every station of life into one offering.

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Titus 2

1But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

2That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

6Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

7In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

8Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

9Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

10Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

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

13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

15These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

Who God is

What kind of God is shown here—one whose grace appears to you, teaches you, and purifies a people for himself?

The condition of man

What does it reveal about you that your ordinary habits can either adorn or obscure the word of God?