Papyrus
32
Date:
Second half of the second century A.D.
Discovered:
Probably Oxyrhynchus, Egypt
Location:
Manchester, England: John Rylands University Library
Contents:
Titus 1:11-15; 2:3-8
Titus
1
11 whose
mouths must be stopped:
men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they
ought not, for dishonest gain’s
sake. 12 One of them, a prophet of their own,
said, “Cretans are always liars, evil
beasts, and idle gluttons.” 13 This testimony is true. For this
cause, reprove them sharply, that they may
be sound in the faith, 14 not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth. 15 To the
pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing
is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
[..]
Titus 2
3 and
that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved
to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
4 that
they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be
sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in
subjection to their own husbands,
that God’s word may not be blasphemed. 6 Likewise, exhort
the younger men to be sober minded. 7 In all
things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, 8 and
soundness of speech that can’t be condemned,
that he who opposes you may be ashamed,
having no evil thing to say about us.