Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Titus 2:2, and Living Bread opens it right there.
The passage in its setting
Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Titus 2. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.
1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Galatians 5:23
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
- 1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
- 1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
- 1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- Titus 1:13
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
- 1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
- Job 12:12
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
- Proverbs 16:31
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
- Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to e…
- Psalms 92:14
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
- Titus 1:8
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
- Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of go…
- Leviticus 19:32
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
More to meet God in Titus
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.
