Titus 2:6

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

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  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years arrive when you say, 'I find no pleasure in them.'
  • 1 Tim 5:1 : 1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
  • 1 John 2:13 : 13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one.
  • Joel 2:28 : 28 And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions.
  • Job 29:8 : 8 the young men saw me and stepped aside, and the aged stood and rose to their feet.
  • Ps 148:12 : 12 young men and young women, old men and children.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart be glad in the days of your prime. Follow the ways of your heart and the sights of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

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    1As for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound teaching.

    2Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.

    3Likewise, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things.

    4They are to encourage the young women to love their husbands and children,

    5to be self-controlled, pure, committed to their homes, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be slandered.

  • Titus 2:7-9
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    7In all things, present yourself as an example of good works, with integrity, dignity, and incorruptibility in your teaching.

    8Let your speech be sound and beyond reproach, so that any opponent may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

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  • 1 Tim 5:1-2
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    1Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

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  • 1 Tim 4:11-12
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    11Command and teach these things.

    12Let no one despise you for your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.

  • 1 Thess 5:6-7
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    7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

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    6An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who are not accused of wild living or rebellion.

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    8But he must be hospitable, a lover of what is good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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    11Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded and faithful in all things.

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