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¹But Titus, you have to teach people the properly good things, so they will live the right way.

²You have to teach the older men to control themselves. They have to do the right thing so that people will respect them. They have to keep believing in Jesus strongly. They have to love other people. They have to be brave and never give up.

³And like that too, you have to teach the older women to do the things that make God happy. Tell them not to say bad things about people, and not to drink a lot of grog, but they have to teach people good things.

⁴Then the old women can teach the young women to love their husbands and their kids,

⁵and to control themselves, and to always be true to their husbands. They have to work hard at home. They have to do good things and go along with what their husbands want. So people will see the things that the young women do, and they will not be able to say anything bad about God’s message.

⁶You have to teach the young men to control themselves.

⁷You too, you have to always do good things. Then the young men will see you and they will do good things too. You have to show them how to be honest and not fool around.

⁸The message you teach has to be true and right, so that nobody can say that you are wrong. Then your enemies will have nothing bad to say about you. Anyone that says bad things about you will shame themselves.

⁹And now I want to talk about workers and their bosses. Workers have to do what their bosses say. They have to make their bosses happy. Tell them, “Don’t talk back to your boss,

¹⁰and don’t ever steal from your boss, but show him that he can always trust you.” Then people will say that those workers are good. And they will respect that message from God about Jesus, and they will want to know more about him.

¹¹It’s like this. God has shown us that he is very good to us. He came to tell everybody that he can save them.

¹²He teaches us to say “No” to the bad things of this world. He tells us not to live a wild life. He tells us to control ourselves. He tells us to do good things that make him happy.

¹³He tells us to do these things now while we wait for Jesus Christ to come back. We will be very happy on that day, when Jesus will come back, and he will show everybody in the world that he is really great.

¹⁴Jesus died to save us from all the bad things of this world. He did this to change us into his own special people, like he properly cleaned us inside, and now we don’t want to do anything bad but only want to do good things.

¹⁵So I want you to teach the things I’m telling you in this letter. Teach them to all the Christians there. You have to teach them in a strong way. Tell Christians to keep going strong for Jesus, and tell them about the things that are wrong. Make sure they take notice of you.