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