Titus 2:6-10

Instructions for Young Men and Servants

As with all the other categories, young men are exhorted to maintain self-control. Titus, like all the other young men, was charged to be a model of good works. His teaching was to be pure, filled with reverence and so sound as to thwart any condemning words from others. In fact, those hostile to the truth would be embarrassed to speak against his life (Titus 2:6-8).

Through Titus, Paul urged Christian slaves to live so as to be acceptable to their masters. They were not to talk back or take something entrusted to their care. Ultimately, all the good they did was meant to please the Master, Jesus Christ (Titus 2:9-10; Colossians 3:22-25). Actually, all the various instructions to Christians were written by Paul to encourage them to glorify God in all their lives.