Titus 2:1 (YLT)

Passage

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

Nearby Context

Titus 2:1 And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

Titus 2:2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

Titus 2:3 aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou--be", "speaking", "doth", "become", "sound", and "teaching". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou--be" and "speaking", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The next verse adds "aged men to be temperate grave sober...", so "thou--be" and "speaking" should be read forward into that movement. In Titus context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

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