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