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1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.
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You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.
2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
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Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in 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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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.
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
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Then they can urge the younger women 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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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.
6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
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Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
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