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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Doing Good for the Sake of the Gospel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="TIT.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="TIT.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="TIT.2.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="TIT.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="TIT.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="TIT.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="TIT.2.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="TIT.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="TIT.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="TIT.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="TIT.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="TIT.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="TIT.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="TIT.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="TIT.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="TIT.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It teaches us to say &#8220;No&#8221; to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="TIT.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">while we wait for the blessed hope&#8212;the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="TIT.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="TIT.2.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="TIT.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Saved in Order to Do Good</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="TIT.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="TIT.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="TIT.3.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="TIT.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="TIT.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="TIT.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="TIT.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="TIT.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="TIT.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="TIT.3.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="TIT.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="TIT.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="TIT.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You may be sure that such people are warped and sinful; they are self-condemned.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Final Remarks</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="TIT.3.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="TIT.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis, because I have decided to winter there. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="TIT.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way and see that they have everything they need. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="TIT.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Our people must learn to devote themselves to doing what is good, in order to provide for urgent needs and not live unproductive lives.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="TIT.3.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="TIT.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Everyone with me sends you greetings. Greet those who love us in the faith.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="TIT.3.15"><span class="content">Grace be with you all.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAL.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;On the day when I act,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, &#8220;they will be my treasured possession. I will spare them, just as a father has compassion and spares his son who serves him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAL.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">And you will again see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1JN.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">3:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">when it is made known</span></span></span><span class="content"> we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1JN.3.3"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1JN.3.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1JN.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1JN.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil&#8217;s work. </span></span></div>
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