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