1. But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:
2. that aged men be temperate, grave, soberminded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
3. that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
4. that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5. to be soberminded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
6. the younger men likewise exhort to be soberminded: