Titus 2:3

Titus 2:3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

I'm going to breeze through this as it is specifically not addressed to me... Again, I think the list here is exemplary, but not exhaustive. The clarifying phrase is "that the word of God may not be reviled." A nice concept for contextualizing right behavior - "consider what this action communicates to people about the word of God." Very similar to upcoming texts: "that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us" and "so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior."

Also clear here... that older women should teach... they have some responsibility to care for and train the younger women for the purpose of adorning the word of God.

Clearly, these principles are applicable to me. I should be asking "how do my actions make people think about God and what he has communicated to the world?". I am always testifying about God, is it true testimony or false? Clearly sin happens - but even the response to it gives testimony of the whole counsel of God (obey the law of Christ, and when you don't, confess and trust God's forgiveness).

Praise God for forgiveness and his word!!