Titus 2:6

2:6 Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled, ¹ 

Titus 2:2

2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, ²  sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. ³ 

Titus 2:4-5

2:4 In this way ⁴  they will train ⁵  the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, 2:5 to be self-controlled, ⁶  pure, fulfilling their duties at home, ⁷  kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message ⁸  of God may not be discredited. ⁹ 

Titus 1:8

1:8 Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

Titus 2:8

2:8 and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, ¹⁰  because he has nothing evil to say about us.

Titus 2:12

2:12 It trains us ¹¹  to reject godless ways ¹²  and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

¹ tn Or “sensible.”

² tn Or “sensible.”

³ sn Temperate…in endurance. See the same cluster of virtues in 1 Thess 1:3 and 1 Cor 13:13.

³ tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).

⁴ tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (swfronizw), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.

⁴ tn Or “sensible.”

⁵ tn Grk “domestic,” “keeping house.”

⁶ tn Or “word.”

⁷ tn Or “slandered.”

⁵ tn Or “put to shame.”

⁶ tn Grk “training us” (as a continuation of the previous clause). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 12 by translating the participle παιδεύουσα (paideuousa) as a finite verb and supplying the pronoun “it” as subject.

⁷ tn Grk “ungodliness.”