• 1. And thou -- be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;
  • 2. aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;
  • 3. aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,
  • 4. that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,
  • 5. sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.
  • 6. The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;
  • 7. concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,
  • 8. discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.
  • 9. Servants -- to their own masters `are' to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,
  • 10. not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.
  • 11. For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,
  • 12. teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,
  • 13. waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,
  • 14. who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
  • 15. these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!