001:016 They profess to know God; but in their actions they disown Him,
and are detestable and disobedient men, and for any good work
are utterly useless.
002:001 But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits
wholesome teaching.
002:002 Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in
their faith, their love and their patience.
002:003 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.
002:004 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,
002:005 industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.
002:006 In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,
002:007 and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,
002:008 and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.
002:009 Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,