Titus 2:2 (DBY)

Passage

that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Nearby Context

Titus 2:1 But do *thou* speak the things that become sound teaching;

Titus 2:2 that the elder men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Titus 2:3 that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

Titus 2:4 that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "faith", "elder", "sober", "grave", "discreet", "sound", "love", and "patience". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "faith" and "elder", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "But do thou speak the things that..." into verse 3's "that the elder women in like manner...", so "faith" and "elder" belong inside that flow. In Titus context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "faith" and "elder" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.