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,