¹ You, however, speak about what things fit with healthy teaching. ² Some examples are elder men being sober,^a honorable, self-disciplined,^b being healthy in connection with faithfulness and with love and with endurance. ³ Other similar examples are elder women being gracious,^c not slandering^d people, not being enslaved to much wine, and being teachers of how to treat people well.^e ⁴ That way, they can guide young women in being self-disciplined^f in caring about their men,^g self-disciplined^h in caring about their children, ⁵ in being ready for sacred actions,ⁱ in running a household, in being generous,^j and in being women who cooperate with^k their own men, so that God’s message would not be slandered.^l ⁶ Similarly, you yourself, encourage young men to be self-disciplined ⁷ concerning everything by presenting yourself as a template for kind actions, as having integrity and being honorable to the standard of the teaching, ⁸ a healthy discussion with nothing to criticize, so that no one from the opposition will have anything to say about us being unethical. ⁹ Similarly, encourage enslaved workers to cooperate with their own enslavers in everything, to satisfy them well, not refusing them, ¹⁰ not stealing,^m but rather demonstrating complete, generousⁿ faithfulness so that they would give credibility to the teaching of God our Liberator.

¹¹ You see, God’s liberatory generosity has been made visible to all people, ¹² training us like children^o so that rejecting disrespectfulness and worldly desires, we can live during this present Age with self-discipline, justness, and respectfulness ¹³ since we welcome the gratifying hope and praiseworthy arrival of our remarkable^p God and Liberator, Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave himself for our sake so that he could pay the price to purchase us from enslavement, from all torahlessness,^q and that he could cleanse his own people for himself, who are passionate for kind actions. ¹⁵ Say these things, and encourage people and call people out with each directive.^r No one should consider themselves above you.

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a. Or ‘temperate.’ This word can imply both abstinence from alcohol or moderate use. It’s referring to not being enslaved to addiction.
b. Tradtionally, ‘self-controlled.’ However, this is a different word than the one found in Galatians 5. It has to do with the healthiness of one’s mind and ability to self-regulate emotions and one’s reactions to those emotions.
c. Or ‘reverent, appropriate to a sacrificial ceremony’ or ‘considerate’ or ‘respectful.’ The idea is treating others with the dignity appropriate for all who are the image of God—everyone.
d. Traditionally, ‘not slanderers.’ The word is actually an adjective—‘slanderous.’ It is the same Greek word that is often translated as ‘blasphemous’ in some places. The word blasphemos was not a specifically religious term. It referred to slander, belittling, or speaking disrespectfully about anyone.
e. Traditionally, ‘teaching what is good.’ The word is a compound of didaskolos, ‘teacher,’ and kalos, ‘good.’ The word kalos is typically used in the Bible to refer to kindness, generosity, being honorable, admirable and is the same word Jesus uses in John to describe himself as the ‘Good Shepherd.’
f. Tradtionally, ‘self-controlled.’ However, this is a different word than the one found in Galatians 5. It has to do with the healthiness of one’s mind and ability to self-regulate emotions and one’s reactions to those emotions.
g. There was not a separate word for ‘husband’ in Greek.
h. Many translations repeat ‘self-controlled’ … but it seems to make more sense that it is being repeated as a parallelism and should be connected to caring about their children as the first instance is connected with caring about their men.
i. Traditionally, ‘pure.’ This does not have to do with any sense of inherent goodness or badness. It is about ritual purity, which is about readiness for sacred duties, not an absolute and enduring moral judgment about someone.
j. Or ‘kind’
k. Traditionally, ‘submit to.’ … voluntary cooperation and shared responsibility per hupotasso definition.
l. Traditionally, ‘to blaspheme,’ but the word blasphemeo was not a specifically religious term. It referred to slandering, belittling, or speaking disrespectfully about anyone.
m. Or ‘taking something for yourself’ or ‘abandoning’ or ‘turning away’
n. Traditionally, ‘good.’ The same Greek word is translated as ‘kind’ or ‘good’ in most translations in verse 5.
o. Traditionally, ‘discipline.’ The Greek word is paideia … meaning nurture, training, raising a child — not inherently punishment.
p. Traditionally, ‘great.’ The word literally means ‘big’ … used for significance or impressiveness, not moral goodness.
q. In the Greek Bible, nomos … refers to Torah teachings rather than simply ‘law’ in the modern legal sense.
r. Traditionally, ‘full authority.’ This word refers to ‘commands’ or ‘conditions’ of a peace treaty — about directives, not personal authority or status.