1 BUT do thou speak the things which become the sound teaching;
2 that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in the faith, in love, in patience;
3 that aged women likewise be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
4 that they may teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
6 The younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded.
7 In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works; in teaching, showing uncorruptness, gravity,
8 sound speech, that can not be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of us.
9 Exhort servants to submit themselves to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting,
10 not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in all things,
11 For the saving grace of God appeared to all men,
12 teaching us that, having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;
14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and cleanse for himself a people to be his own, zealous of good works.
15 These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise thee.
