| 1 | And thou—be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; |
| 2 | aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance; |
| 3 | aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers, |
| 4 | that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of [their] husbands, lovers of [their] children, |
| 5 | sober, pure, keepers of [their own] houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. |
| 6 | The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded; |
| 7 | concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, |
| 8 | discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you. |
| 9 | Servants—to their own masters [are] to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying, |
| 10 | not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things. |
| 11 | For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, |
| 12 | teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age, |
| 13 | waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, |
| 14 | who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; |
| 15 | these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee! |