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| 2:1 |
You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
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| 2:2 |
Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
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| 2:3 |
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
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| 2:4 |
Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children,
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| 2:5 |
to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
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| 2:6 |
Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
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| 2:7 |
In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness
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| 2:8 |
and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
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| 2:9 |
Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,
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| 2:10 |
and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.
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| 2:11 |
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
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| 2:12 |
It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age,
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| 2:13 |
while we wait for the blessed hope--the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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| 2:14 |
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.
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| 2:15 |
These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.
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