2:1 But as for you, teach what is consistent with sound instruction.
2:2 Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.
2:3 Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,
2:4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
2:5 to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.
2:6 Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled
2:7 in all things, offering yourself as a model of good works and in your teaching offering integrity, gravity,
2:8 and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.
2:9 Urge slaves to be submissive to their masters in everything, to be pleasing, not talking back,
2:10 not stealing, but showing complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the teaching of God our Savior.
2:11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,
2:12 training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,
2:13 while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
2:14 He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
2:15 Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.
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