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:
7. in all things shewing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity,
8. sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.
9. Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;