Titus 2:12

Coverdale Bible (1535)

and teacheth vs, that we shulde denye vngodlynes, and wordly lustes: and that we shulde lyue discretly, righteously, and godly in this worlde,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Παιδεύουσα ἡμᾶς ἵνα, ἀρνησάμενοι τὴν ἀσέβειαν καὶ τὰς κοσμικὰς ἐπιθυμίας, σωφρόνως, καὶ δικαίως, καὶ εὐσεβῶς, ζήσωμεν ἐν τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι·

Transliteration

Paideuousa hēmas hina, arnēsamenoi the asebeian and the kosmikas epithumias, sōphronōs, and dikaiōs, and eusebōs, zēsōmen in the nun aiōni;

Grammar Details

• *Paideuousa*: present active participle, nominative feminine singular - training/instructing
• *hēmas*: accusative, plural, personal pronoun - us
• *hina*: subordinate conjunction - so that/in order that
• *arnēsamenoi*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine plural - having denied/rejected
• *asebeian*: accusative, feminine, singular - ungodliness/impiety
• *kosmikas*: accusative, feminine, plural, adjective - worldly
• *epithumias*: accusative, feminine, plural - desires/passions
• *sōphronōs*: adverb - sensibly/self-controlled
• *dikaiōs*: adverb - righteously/justly
• *eusebōs*: adverb - godly/piously
• *zēsōmen*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st person plural - we might live
• *nun*: adverb - now/present
• *aiōni*: dative, masculine, singular - age/world

Word Meanings

• *Paideuousa*: training/instructing/disciplining
• *arnēsamenoi*: having denied/rejected/renounced
• *asebeian*: ungodliness/impiety/wickedness
• *kosmikas*: worldly/pertaining to this world
• *epithumias*: desires/passions/lusts
• *sōphronōs*: sensibly/self-controlled/soberly
• *dikaiōs*: righteously/justly/fairly
• *eusebōs*: godly/piously/devoutly
• *zēsōmen*: we might live/should live
• *aiōni*: age/world/era

Referenced Verses

• Rom 6:19 : 19 I wil speake grosly, because of the weaknes of youre flesh. Like as ye haue geuen ouer youre membres to the seruyce of vnclennesse, from one wickednesse to another: Eue so now also geue ouer youre membres to the seruyce of righteousnesse, that they maye be holy.
• 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 Yee and all they that wil lyue godly in Christ Iesu, must suffre persecucion.
• Matt 16:24 : 24 Then sayde Iesus vnto his disciples: Yf eny man wil folowe me, let him forsake himself, & take vp his crosse, and folowe me.
• Ps 4:3 : 3 Sela Knowe this, that the LORDE dealeth maruelously with his saynte: and when I call vpon the LORDE, he heareth me.
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seke the LORDE while he maye be founde, call vpo him while he is nye. 7 Let the vngodly man forsake his wayes, ad the vnrightuous his ymaginacios, & turne agayne vnto the LORDE, so shal he be merciful vnto him: and to oure God, for he is redy to forgeue.
• Ezek 33:14-15 : 14 Agayne, yff I saye to the wicked: thou shalt surely dye: and so he turne fro his synnes, and do the thinge that is laufull and right: 15 In so moch that the same wicked ma geueth the pledge agayne, restoreth that he had taken awaye by robbery, walketh in the comaundementes off life, and doth no wroge: Then shall he surely lyue, and not dye.
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 I wil geue you my sprete amonge you, and cause you to walke in my commaundemetes, to kepe my lawes, and to fulfill them.
• Matt 3:8-9 : 8 Bewarre, brynge forth due frutes of pennaunce. 9 Thinke not now, to saye in your selues, we haue Abraham to oure father. For I saye vnto you, that God is able of these stones to rayse vp chyldren vnto Abraham. 10 Euen now is the axe put vnto ye rote of the trees: therfore euery tre which bringeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewe downe, and cast into the fyre.
• Luke 1:75 : 75 all the dayes of oure life, in soch holynes and righteousnes as is accepte before him.
• Luke 3:9-9 : 9 The axe is put vnto the tre allready: so that euery tre which bryngeth not forth good frute, shalbe hewen downe, and cast in to the fyre. 10 And the people axed him, and sayde: What shal we do then? 11 He answered, & sayde vnto the: He that hath two coates, let him parte wt him yt hath none: and he that hath meate, let him do likewyse. 12 The publicans came also, to be baptysed and sayde vnto him: Master, what shal we do? 13 He sayde vnto them: Requyre nomore, then is appoynted you.
• John 6:25 : 25 And whan they founde him on the other syde of the see, they sayde vnto him: Master, whan camest thou hither?
• John 14:30 : 30 Here after wyl not I talke moch with you. For the prynce of this worlde cometh, and hath nothinge in me.
• John 17:14-15 : 14 I haue geuen them thy worde, and the worlde hateth the: for they are not of the worlde, euen as I also am not of the worlde. 15 I praye not that thou shuldest take them out of the worlde, but that thou kepe the fro euell.
• Acts 24:16 : 16 Therfore studye I to haue allwaye a cleare conscience towarde God and towarde men.
• Acts 24:25 : 25 Howbeit whan Paul spake off righteousnesse, and off chastite and off the iudgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: Go thy waye for this tyme. Whan I haue a conuenyent tyme, I wil sende for the.
• Rom 6:4-6 : 4 Therfore are we buried wt him by baptyme in to death, that, like as Christ was raysed vp from the deed by the glory of the father, euen so we also shulde walke in a new life. 5 For yf we be grafted wt him vnto like death, then shal we be like the resurreccion also: 6 For so moch as we knowe, that oure olde man is crucified with him, that the synfull body mighte ceasse, that hence forth we shulde serue synne no more.
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not synne reigne therfore in youre mortall bodye, that ye shulde obeye vnto the lustes of it.
• Matt 5:19-20 : 19 Whosoeuer breaketh one of these least comaundmentes, and teacheth me so, he shalbe called the leest in the kyngdome of heauen, But whosoeuer obserueth and teacheth the same shalbe called greate in the kyngdome of heauen. 20 For I saye vnto you: excepte youre rightewesnes exceade the righetewesnes of the Scribes and Pharises, ye can not entre in to the kyngdome of heauen.
• Rom 8:13 : 13 to lyue after the flesh: for yf ye lyue after ye fleshe, ye must dye: but yf ye mortyfye the dedes of the body thorow the sprete, ye shal lyue.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And fashion not youre selues like vnto this worlde, but be chaunged thorow the renewynge off yor mynde, yt ye maye proue, what thinge that good, yt acceptable, & perfecte wil of God is.
• Rom 13:12-13 : 12 the nighte is past, but the daye is come nye.) Let vs therfore cast awaye ye workes of darknesse, and put on the armoure of lighte. 13 Let vs walke honestly as in the daye, not in excesse off eatinge aud in dronkennesse, not in chamburynge and wantonnesse, not in stryfe and enuyenge:
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Knowe ye not that ye vnrighteous shal not inheret the kyngdome of God? Be not disceaued. Nether whoremongers, ner worshippers off ymages, ner breakers off wedlocke, ner weaklinges, nether abusers of them selues with mankynde, 10 ner theues, nether the couetous, ner drokardes, ner cursed speakers, ner extorcioners shal inheret the kyngdome of God. 11 And soch haue some of you bene, but ye are wasshed, ye are sanctified, ye are made righteous by the name of the LORDE Iesus, and by the sprete of oure God.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For oure reioysinge is this, euen the testimony of oure conscience, that in synglenes & godly purenesse, not in fleshlye wyssdome, but in the grace of God, we haue had oure conuersacion in the worlde, but most of all with you.
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Seynge now that we haue soch promyses (dearly beloued) let vs clense oureselues from all fylthynes of the flesh and sprete, and growe vp to full holynes in ye feare of God.
• Gal 1:4 : 4 which gaue him selfe for oure synnes, that he mighte delyuer vs from this present euel worlde, acordinge to the wyll of God oure father,
• Gal 5:24 : 24 But they that are Christes, haue crucified their flesh, with the lustes and desyres.
• Eph 1:4 : 4 acordinge as he had chosen vs by him, or euer the foundacion of the worlde was layed, that we shulde be holy and without blame before him in loue,
• Eph 2:2 : 2 in the which in tyme past ye walked, acordinge to the course off this worlde, and after the prynce that ruleth in the ayre namely, after ye sprete, which now worketh in the children of vnbeleue,
• Eph 4:22-25 : 22 So then as concernynge the conuersacion in tyme past laye from you that olde man which marreth himselfe thorow disceauable lustes: 23 but be ye renued in the sprete of youre mynde, 24 and put on that new man, which is shapen after God, in true righteousnes and holynes. 25 Wherfore put awaye lyenge, and speake euery man the trueth vnto his neghboure, for as moch as we are membres one of another.
• Col 1:22 : 22 in the body of his flesh thorow death, to make you holy, and vnblameable & with out faute in his awne sighte,
• Col 3:5-9 : 5 Mortifye therfore youre mebres which are vpon earth, whordome, vnclennes, vnnaturall lust, euell concupiscece, and couetousnes, which is a worshippynge of Idols: 6 for which thinges sakes the wrath of God commeth vpon the children of vnbeleue: 7 in the which thinges ye walked some tyme, whan ye lyued in them. 8 But now put all awaye fro you: wrath, fearcenesse, maliciousnes, cursed speakynge, fylthie wordes out of youre mouth. 9 Lye not one to another. Put of ye olde ma with his workes,
• 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God hath not called vs to vnclennesse, but vnto holynes.
• 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 But as touchinge brotherly loue, ye nede not that I wryte vnto you, for ye youre selues are taught of God to loue one another:
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 Let no man despyse yi youth, but be thou vnto them that beleue, an ensample, in worde, in couersacion, in loue, in ye sprete, in faith, in purenesse.
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge the which are riche in this worlde, that they be not proude, ner trust in the vncertayne riches, but in the lyuynge God (which geueth vs abundauntly all thinges to enioye them:)
• Matt 28:20 : 20 and teach them to kepe all thinges, what soeuer I haue commaunded you. And lo, I am with you euery daye vnto the ende of the worlde.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous before God, and walked in all the commaundementes and statutes of the LORDE vnreproueably.
• Rev 14:12 : 12 Here is the pacience of sayntes. Heare are they that kepe the commaundementes and the faith off Iesu.
• 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 For Demas hath lefte me, and loueth this present worlde, and is departed vnto Tessalonica, Crescens in to Galacia, Titus vnto Dalmacia,
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we oure selues also were in tymes past, vnwyse, dishobedient, in erroure, seruynge lustes and dyuerse maners of voluptuousnes, lyuynge in maliciousnes and envye, full of hate, hatynge one another.
• Heb 8:11 : 11 and they shal not teach euery ma his neghboure, and euery man his brother, sayenge: knowe ye LORDE, for they shal knowe me from the leest to the most of them:
• Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Drawe nye to God & he wil drawe nye to you. Clense yor hondes ye synners, and pourge youre hertes ye wauerynge mynded. 9 Suffre affliccions: sorowe ye and wepe. Let youre laughter be turned to mornynge, and youre ioye to heuynes. 10 Cast downe youre selues before the LORDE, and he shal lift you vp.
• 1 Pet 1:14-18 : 14 as obedient childre, not fasshionynge youre selues to yor olde lustes of ignoraunce: 15 but as he which hath called you is holy, eue so be ye holy also in all youre conuersacion: 16 for it it wrytte: Be ye holy, for I am holy. 17 And yf so be that ye call on the father, which without respecte of personnes iudgeth acordynge to euery mans worke, se yt ye passe ye tyme of youre pilgremage in feare: 18 and knowe, that ye were not redemed wt corruptible syluer and golde, from youre vayne conuersacion (which ye receaued by the tradicios of the fathers)
• 1 Pet 2:11-12 : 11 Dearly beloued, I beseke you as straungers and pilgrems, absteyne fro the fleshly lustes, which fighte agaynst the soule, 12 and lede an honest conuersacion amonge the Heythen, that they which bacbyte you as euell doers, maye se youre good workes, and prayse God in the daye of visitacion.
• 1 Pet 4:2-5 : 2 yt hece forth (as moch tyme as yet remayneth in ye flesh) he shulde not lyue after the lustes of me, but after the wil of God. 3 For it is ynough, yt we haue spent ye tyme past of the life, after the will of ye Heythen, wha we walked in wantannesse, lustes, dronkenes, glotony, ryotous drynkynge, & i abhominable Idolatrye. 4 And it semeth to the a straunge thinge, yt ye runne not also wt them vnto the same excesse of ryote, & speake euell of you. 5 (Which shal geue acoptes vnto hi yt is ready to iudge ye quycke & ye deed.)
• 2 Pet 1:4-8 : 4 wherby the excellent and most greate promyses are geue vnto vs: namely, that ye by the same shulde be partakers of the godly nature, yf ye flye the corrupte lust of the worlde: 5 Geue ye all youre diligence therfore here vnto, and in youre faith mynister vertue: in vertue, knowlege: 6 in knowlege, temperancy: in temperancy, pacience: in pacience, godlynes: 7 in godlynes, brotherly loue: in brotherly loue, generall loue. 8 For yf these thinges be plenteous in you, they will not let you be ydle nor vnfrutefull in ye knowlege of oure LORDE Iesus Christ.
• 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The LORDE knoweth how to delyuer the godly out of tentacion, and how to reserue the vniust vnto the daye of iudgment for to be punyshed:
• 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For yf they (after they haue escaped from the fylthynes of the worlde, thorow the knowlege of ye LORDE and Sauioure Iesus Christ) are yet tangled agayne therin and ouercome, then is the latter ende worse vnto them then the begynnynge. 21 For it had bene better for them, not to haue knowne the waye of righteousnes, then after they haue knowne it, to turne from the holy commaundemet, that was geuen vnto them. 22 It is happened vnto them acordynge vnto the true prouerbe: ye dogg is turned to his vomyte agayne: and ye sowe that was wasshed, vnto hir walowynge in the myre.
• 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Yf all these thinges shal perishe, what maner persons then ought ye to be in holy couersacion and godlynes,
• 1 John 2:6 : 6 He yt sayeth he abydeth in him, oughte to walke euen as he walked.
• 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Se that ye loue not the worlde, nether ye thinges that are in the worlde. Yf eny man loue the worlde, the loue of the father is not in him: 16 for all that is in the worlde (namely the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pryde of life) is not of the father, but of the worlde. 17 And the worlde passeth awaye and the lust therof. But he that fulfylleth the wyll of God, abydeth for euer.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 And the anoyntinge which ye haue receaued of him, dwelleth in you: & ye nede not yt eny ma teach you, but as the anoyntinge teacheth you all thiges, euen so is it true, & is no lye. And as it hath taughte you, eue so abide ye therin.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We knowe that we are of God, & the worlde is set alltogether on wickednes.
• Jude 1:18 : 18 how that they tolde you yt their shulde be begylers in the last tyme, which shulde walke after their awne vngodly lustes.
• Ezek 18:30-31 : 30 As for me, I wil iudge euery man, acordinge to his wayes, O ye house of Israel, saieth the LORDE God. Wherfore, be conuerted, and turne you clene from all youre wickednesse, so shal there no synne do you harme. 31 Cast awaye fro you all youre vngodlynesse, that ye haue done: make you new hertes and a new sprete. Wherfore wil ye dye, O ye house of Israel?
• Ps 105:45 : 45 That they might kepe his statutes, and obserue his lawes. Halleluya. Halleluya.