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1 - But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits wholesome teaching.

2 - Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.

3 - In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

4 - They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

5 - industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

6 - In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,

7 - and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

8 - and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

9 - Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,

10 - but manifesting perfect fidelity and kind feeling, in order to bring honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things.

11 - For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,

12 - training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

13 - in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

14 - who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

15 - Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.