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Titus 2:2

Self-controlFaithPatience

1 But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine.

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

3 Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

4 In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

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BSB
Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
KJV
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
WEB
that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance,
ASV
that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
DARBY
that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
BLB
Older [men] are to be sober-minded, dignified, sound-minded, being sound in faith, in love, in endurance;
ÅB
at gamle menn skal være edrue, verdige, sindige, sunde i troen, i kjærligheten, i tålmodet;
OTB
Eldre menn skal være edruelige, verdige, sindige, sunne i troen, i kjærlighet og i utholdenhet.
B1930
at gamle menn skal være edrue, verdige, sindige, sunde i troen, i kjærligheten, i tålmodet;

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