Titus 2
Titus chapter 2 from the John Wycliffe Bible (c.1395)
1 Also moneste thou yonge men, that thei be sobre.
2 In alle thingis yyue thi silf ensaumple of good werkis, in teching, in hoolnesse, in sadnesse.
3 An hoolsum word, and vnrepreuable; that he that is of the contrarie side, be aschamed, hauynge noon yuel thing to seie of you.
4 Moneste thou seruauntis to be suget to her lordis; in alle thingis plesinge, not ayenseiynge, not defraudynge,
5 but in alle thingis schewinge good feith, that thei onoure in alle thingis the doctryn of God, oure sauyour.</span> <span class="verse" data-verse="6"><sup>6</sup> For the grace of God, oure sauyour,
7 hath apperid to alle men, and tauyte vs, that we forsake wickidnesse, and worldli desyris, lyue sobreli, and iustli, `and piteuousli in this world,
8 abidinge the blessid hope and the comyng of the glorie of the greet God, and of oure sauyour Jhesu Crist;
9 that yaf hym silf for vs, to ayenbie vs fro al wickidnesse, and make clene to hym silf a puple acceptable, and suere of good werkis.
10 Speke thou these thingis, and moneste thou, and repreue thou with al comaundement; no man dispise thee.
12 Amoneste hem to be sugetis to prynces, and to poweris; to obeische to that that is seid, and to be redi to al good werk;
13 to blasfeme no man, to be not ful of chiding, but temperat, schewynge al myldenesse to alle men.
14 For we weren sum tyme vnwise, vnbileueful, errynge, and seruynge to desiris, and to dyuerse lustis, doynge in malice and enuye, worthi to be hatid, hatinge ech othere.
15 But whanne the benygnyte and the manhed of oure sauyour God aperide,
