Paul tells Titus to teach what fits sound doctrine. Older men should be sensible and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. Older women should be reverent and teach what is good, so they can train young wives to love their husbands and children, to be kind and pure, and to care for their homes. Younger men should be self-controlled. Paul tells Titus to be an example of good works and to teach with integrity.

Paul also tells Titus to urge servants to please their masters in all things, not to talk back or steal, but to be faithful. Paul gives the reason: so they would adorn the teaching about God our Savior in everything they do. This was a word to bondservants of that time.

Then Paul writes: For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men. Grace trains us to reject ungodliness and worldly desires, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives now. We look for the blessed hope, the appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He gave Himself for us to set us free from sin and make a people of His own, eager to do good works.

Paul writes: But say the things which fit sound doctrine. Older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, and sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance. Paul adds that older women should be reverent in how they live, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, and teachers of what is good. Then they may train the young wives to love their husbands and children, to be sober minded, pure, workers at home, kind, and subject to their own husbands, so that God's word is not spoken against. Younger men should be sober minded too.

Paul tells Titus: In all things show yourself an example of good works. His teaching should show integrity and seriousness, and his speech should be sound, so that opponents have nothing evil to say. Paul then writes: Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things. They were not to talk back or steal, but to show good faithfulness, so that in everything their lives would make the teaching of God our Savior look beautiful.

Paul gives the reason behind all this: For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men. That grace instructs us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age. We wait with hope for Jesus Christ, our great God and Savior, to appear in glory. Jesus gave Himself to free us from all wickedness. He makes us clean and makes us His own people, eager to do good works. Paul tells Titus to teach these things with all authority and let no one despise him.