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2:1 But as for you, teach what is consistent with sound doctrine. 2:2 Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, prudent, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. 2:3 Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good, 2:4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 2:5 to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, being submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited. 2:6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. 2:7 Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity, 2:8 and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us. 2:9 Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back, 2:10 not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior. 2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, 2:12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, 2:13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. 2:14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds. 2:15 Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.