II.  But do thou speak the things which become the sound teaching;

²that aged men be sober, grave, discreet, sound in the faith, in love, in patience;

³that aged women likewise be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

⁴that they may teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

⁵to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

⁶The younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded.

⁷In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works; in teaching, showing uncorruptness, gravity,

⁸sound speech, that can not be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of us.

⁹Exhort servants to submit themselves to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting,

¹⁰not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in all things,

¹¹For the saving grace of God appeared to all men,

¹²teaching us that, having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

¹³looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;

¹⁴who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and cleanse for himself a people to be his own, zealous of good works.

¹⁵These things speak, and exhort, and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise thee.