Titus 2:13 (YLT)

Passage

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

Nearby Context

Titus 2:11 For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

Titus 2:12 teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

Titus 2:13 waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

Titus 2:14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

Titus 2:15 these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "waiting", "blessed", "hope", "manifestation", "glory", "great", "saviour", and "jesus". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "waiting" and "blessed", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "teaching us that denying the impiety and..." into verse 14's "who did give himself for us that...", so "waiting" and "blessed" 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 "waiting" and "blessed" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.