Titus 2:1-8 (MSG)

1-6 Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine. Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance. Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don’t want anyone looking down on God’s Message because of their behavior. Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives.

7-8 But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching, your words solid and sane. Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around.

Titus 2:1-8 (MSG)

General Context Questions

• Who wrote this? Who is or which groups of people are involved?
• Was this written before, during, or after Jesus’ lifetime?
• Is this a narrative, a parable, a praise, a suggestion, a command, an instruction, or something else?
• Is there anything that stands out to you?
• Did anything confuse you? Were there words or phrases that didn’t make sense?

​Specific Questions

• Do you know any older men that live the kind of life described in this passage? How can you follow their example and incorporate their characteristics into your own life?
• This passage advises young women to “keep a good house”. Does this mean that a woman’s only job is to be a homemaker or that a man shouldn’t be involved in housekeeping?
• What images come to mind when you think of a disciplined life? Do you feel like your life is disciplined? How can you increase your discipline?
• The recipient of this letter was advised to set the example and to practice what he preached. Can you think of a time when you saw someone follow or not follow this advice? What effect did their example have on you and your view of God?