1. But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:
2. that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
3. that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, 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 sober-minded, 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 sober-minded:
7. in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity,