テトスへの手紙 2:6

聖書日本語

6 若い男にも、同じく、万事につけ慎み深くあるように、勧めなさい。

Bible Verse Review
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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.