2:1 But you, speak what is fitting for healthy teaching.
2:2 Older men should be clear-minded, dignified, self-controlled, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
2:3 Elderly women, likewise, are to be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, and not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good,
2:4 and so encourage the younger women to love their husbands and children,
2:5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, submissive to their own husbands that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
2:6 Urge the younger men, likewise, to be self-controlled
2:7 in all things, showing yourself to be an example of good works, pure and dignified in your teaching,
2:8 beyond reproach in your healthy instruction, so that the opponent may be put to shame because he has nothing evil to say against us.
2:9 Urge slaves to be subject to their own masters in all things, to be pleasing, not talking back,
2:10 not pilfering but showing completely good faithfulness so that they might adorn the teaching · of God our Savior in all things.
2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,
2:12 teaching us that, having denied the ungodliness and the worldly passions, we should live in a self-controlled manner and justly and reverently in the present age,
2:13 waiting for the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2:14 who gave himself for us so that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and cleanse for himself a special people, a zealot for good works.
2:15 Speak these things and encourage and rebuke with all authority; let no one disregard you.
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