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1 But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits wholesome teaching.
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1 You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
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2 Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.
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2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
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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.
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3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
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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,
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4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children,
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5 industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.
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5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
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6 In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,
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6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
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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,
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7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness
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8 and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.
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8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
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9 Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,
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9 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,
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10 but manifesting perfect fidelity and kind feeling, in order to bring honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things.
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10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.
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11 For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,
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11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
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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,
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12 It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,
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13 in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;
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13 while we wait for the blessed hope--the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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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.
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14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
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15 Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority.
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15 These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.
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