Titus 2:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

📖 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 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,
• 2 Tim 3:12 : 12 and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,
• Matt 16:24 : 24 Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,
• Ps 4:3 : 3 And know ye that Jehovah Hath separated a saintly one to Himself. Jehovah heareth in my calling to Him.
• Isa 55:6-7 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah, while He is found, Call ye Him, while He is near, 7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
• Ezek 33:14-15 : 14 And in My saying to the wicked: Thou surely diest, And -- he hath turned back from his sin, And hath done judgment and righteousness, 15 (The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth -- he doth not die.
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.
• Matt 3:8-9 : 8 bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, 9 and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have -- Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham, 10 and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.
• Luke 1:75 : 75 To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.
• Luke 3:9-9 : 9 and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.' 10 And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, `What, then, shall we do?' 11 and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats -- let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals -- in like manner let him do.' 12 And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?' 13 and he said unto them, `Exact no more than that directed you.'
• John 6:25 : 25 and having found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, `Rabbi, when hast thou come hither?'
• John 14:30 : 30 I will no more talk much with you, for the ruler of this world doth come, and in me he hath nothing;
• John 17:14-15 : 14 I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world; 15 I do not ask that Thou mayest take them out of the world, but that Thou mayest keep them out of the evil.
• Acts 24:16 : 16 and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
• Acts 24:25 : 25 and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'
• Rom 6:4-6 : 4 we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk. 5 For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, `so' also we shall be of the rising again; 6 this knowing, that our old man was crucified with `him', that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
• Matt 5:19-20 : 19 `Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands -- the least -- and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach `them', he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. 20 `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.
• Rom 8:13 : 13 for if according to the flesh ye do live, ye are about to die; and if, by the Spirit, the deeds of the body ye put to death, ye shall live;
• Rom 12:2 : 2 and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.
• Rom 13:12-13 : 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light; 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
• Gal 1:4 : 4 who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,
• Gal 5:24 : 24 and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;
• Eph 1:4 : 4 according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,
• Eph 2:2 : 2 in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,
• Eph 4:22-25 : 22 ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth. 25 Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;
• Col 1:22 : 22 in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,
• Col 3:5-9 : 5 Put to death, then, your members that `are' upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry -- 6 because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience, 7 in which also ye -- ye did walk once, when ye lived in them; 8 but now put off, even ye, the whole -- anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking -- out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,
• 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;
• 1 Thess 4:9 : 9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
• 1 Tim 4:12 : 12 let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days -- till the full end of the age.'
• Luke 1:6 : 6 and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
• Rev 14:12 : 12 Here is endurance of the saints: here `are' those keeping the commands of God, and the faith of Jesus.'
• 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,
• Titus 3:3 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
• Heb 8:11 : 11 and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,
• Jas 4:8-9 : 8 draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled! 9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness; 10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
• 1 Pet 1:14-18 : 14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, 15 but according as He who did call you `is' holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, 16 because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;' 17 and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye, 18 having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,
• 1 Pet 2:11-12 : 11 Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul, 12 having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
• 1 Pet 4:2-5 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries, 4 in which they think it strange -- your not running with them to the same excess of dissoluteness, speaking evil, 5 who shall give an account to Him who is ready to judge living and dead,
• 2 Pet 1:4-8 : 4 through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires. 5 And this same also -- all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, 6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; 8 for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 2 Pet 2:9 : 9 The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,
• 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, 21 for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them, 22 and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'
• 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?
• 1 John 2:6 : 6 He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.
• 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world, 17 and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.
• 1 John 2:27 : 27 and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;
• Jude 1:18 : 18 that they said to you, that in the last time there shall be scoffers, after their own desires of impieties going on,
• Ezek 18:30-31 : 30 Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block, 31 Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?
• Ps 105:45 : 45 That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!