English Standard Version ESV
The Message Bible MSG
1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
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Your job is to speak out on the things that make for solid doctrine.
2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
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Guide older men into lives of temperance, dignity, and wisdom, into healthy faith, love, and endurance.
3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
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Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness.
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
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By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
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be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. We don't want anyone looking down on God's Message because of their behavior.
6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
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Also, guide the young men to live disciplined lives.
7 Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,
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But mostly, show them all this by doing it yourself, incorruptible in your teaching,
8 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
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your words solid and sane. Then anyone who is dead set against us, when he finds nothing weird or misguided, might eventually come around.
9 Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
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Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters - no back talk,
10 not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior.
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no petty thievery. Then their good character will shine through their actions, adding luster to the teaching of our Savior God.
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Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.