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Psalm 119:124-125
"Deal with [me] according to Your mercy, And teach me Your statutes.... Give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies."

John MacArthur: Daily Study Bible "If the mind is defiled, it cannot accurately inform the conscience, so conscience cannot warn the person. When conscience cannot warn the person. When conscience is accurately and fully infused with God's truth, it functions as the warning system God designed" (1104).

Psalm 119:130-135
"The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple....Look upon me and be merciful to me.... Direct my steps by Your word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me. Redeem me from the oppression of man, That I may keep Your precepts. Make Your face shine upon [me]."

Titus 2:2-5, 14
Older women are to be "sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things--that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands.... [Christ] gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works."

John MacArthur, Daily Study Bible: The admonishment to love [phileo--affection] one's husband is "unconditional.... based on God's will, not on a husband's worthiness."

Titus 2:3-5, Amp.
"Bid the older women... to... give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble, So that they will wisely train the young women to be... (temperate, disciplined).... self-controlled,... good-natured (kind-hearted), adapting and subordinating themselves to their husbands...."

v. 14: Christ gave Himself"....to purify for Himself a people [...peculiarly His own, people who are eager and enthusiastic about [living a life that is good and filled with] beneficial deeds."