Titus 2:6

Easy-to-Read Version

In the same way, tell the young men to be wise.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled

King James Version (1611)
Yong men likewise exhort, to bee sober minded.

King James Version
Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

English Standard Version
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

New American Standard Bible
Likewise urge the young men to be sensible;

New Century Version
In the same way, encourage young men to be wise.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Likewise urge the young men to be sensible;

Legacy Standard Bible
Likewise urge the younger men to be sensible;

Berean Standard Bible
In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

Contemporary English Version
Tell the young men to have self-control in everything.

Complete Jewish Bible
Similarly, urge the young men to be self-controlled,

Darby Translation
The younger men in like manner exhort to be discreet:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Exhort yong men likewise, that they bee sober minded.

George Lamsa Translation
Likewise exhort the young to be modest.

Good News Translation
In the same way urge the young men to be self-controlled.

Lexham English Bible
Likewise, exhort the young men to be self-controlled,

Literal Translation
the younger men in the same way exhort to be discreet;

Amplified Bible
In a similar way urge the young men to be sensible and self-controlled and to behave wisely [taking life seriously].

American Standard Version
the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

Bible in Basic English
To the young men give orders to be wise and serious-minded:

Hebrew Names Version
Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober-minded;

International Standard Version
Likewise, encourage the younger men to be sensible.

Etheridge Translation
And of those who are young men, likewise, require that they be chaste.

Murdock Translation
And likewise exhort young men to be sober.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Young men lykewyse exhort, to be sober mynded.

English Revised Version
the younger men likewise exhort to be soberminded:

World English Bible
Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober-minded;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
The young men likewise exhort to be discreet, In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works,

Weymouth's New Testament
In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also moneste thou yonge men, that thei be sobre.

Update Bible Version
the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

Webster's Bible Translation
Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded.

New English Translation
Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled,

New King James Version
Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,

New Living Translation
In the same way, encourage the young men to live wisely.

New Life Bible
Also teach young men to be wise.

New Revised Standard
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The younger men, in the same way, exhort thou to be sober-minded:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober.

Revised Standard Version
Likewise urge the younger men to control themselves.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yonge men lykwyse exhorte that they be sobre mynded.

Young's Literal Translation
The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Exhorte the yonge men likewyse, that they be sober mynded.

Mace New Testament (1729)
that the word of God may not be blasphemed. the young men likewise exhort to be modest.

Simplified Cowboy Version
And we ain't done yet! Teach them younger cowboys to be responsible and wise.

Contextual Overview

¹ You, however, must tell everyone how to live in a way that agrees with the true teaching. ² Teach the older men to have self-control, to be serious, and to be wise. They must be strong in faith, in love, and in patience. ³ Also, teach the older women to live the way those who serve the Lord should live. They should not go around saying bad things about others or be in the habit of drinking too much. They should teach what is good. ⁴ By doing this they will teach the younger women to love their husbands and children. ⁵ They will teach them to be wise and pure, to take care of their homes, to be kind, and to be willing to serve their husbands. Then no one will be able to criticize the teaching God gave us. ⁶ In the same way, tell the young men to be wise. ⁷ You should be an example for them in every way by the good things you do. When you teach, be honest and serious. ⁸ And your teaching should be clearly right so that you cannot be criticized. Then anyone who is against you will be ashamed. There will not be anything bad they can say about us. ⁹ And tell this to those who are slaves: They should be willing to serve their masters at all times; they should try to please them, not argue with them; ¹⁰ they should not steal from them; and they should show their masters that they can be trusted. Then, in everything they do, they will show that the teaching of God our Savior is good.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Young: Job 29:8, Psalms 148:12, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Joel 2:28, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 John 2:13

sober minded: or, discreet, Titus 2:2

Reciprocal: Job 32:6 - I am Proverbs 1:4 - to the Matthew 13:52 - scribe Mark 6:30 - both Acts 15:32 - exhorted Romans 12:3 - soberly 1 Corinthians 14:3 - exhortation 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - General 1 Thessalonians 5:6 - sober 1 Peter 5:8 - sober

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded. Temperate, chaste, modest, moderate, wise, and prudent in all things: this is said to Titus, as being his province to instruct and exhort the young men; as it were proper and convenient for aged women to teach the young women how they should behave and conduct themselves.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded - Margin, “discreet.” On the meaning of the Greek word used here (σωφρονεῖν sōphronein), see the notes at Titus 2:2, Titus 2:4. The idea is, that they should be entreated to be prudent, discreet, serious in their deportment; to get the mastery over their passions and appetites; to control the propensities to which youth are subject; and that there should be such self-government, under the influence of, religion, as to avoid excess in everything. A well-governed mind, superior to the indulgence of those passions to which the young are prone, will express the meaning of the word here. They should be “steady in their behaviour, superior to sensual temptations, and constant in the exercise of every part of self-government.” Doddridge. The reasons for this are obvious:

(1) The hopes of the church depend much on them.

(2) A young man who cannot govern himself, gives little promise of being useful or happy.

(3) Indulgence in the propensities to which young men are prone, will, sooner or later, bring ruin to the body and the soul.

(4) They are just at the period of life when they are exposed to special temptations, and when they need to exercise a special guardianship over their own conduct.

(5) Like others, they may soon die; and they should be habitually in such a frame of mind, as to be prepared to stand before God. A young man who feels that he may be soon in the eternal world, cannot but be sensible of the propriety of having a serious mind, and of living and acting as in the immediate presence of his Maker and Judge.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 6. Young men - exhort to be sober-minded. — Reformation should begin with the old; they have the authority, and they should give the example. The young of both sexes must also give an account of themselves to God; sober-mindedness in young men is a rare qualification, and they who have it not plunge into excesses and irregularities which in general sap the foundation of their constitution, bring on premature old age, and not seldom lead to a fatal end.