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| 2:1 |
But as for you, teach what is consistent with sound doctrine.
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| 2:2 |
Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, prudent, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.
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| 2:3 |
Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good,
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| 2:4 |
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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| 2:5 |
to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, being submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.
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| 2:6 |
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
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| 2:7 |
Show yourself in all respects a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, gravity,
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| 2:8 |
and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.
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| 2:9 |
Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back,
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| 2:10 |
not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior.
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| 2:11 |
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all,
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| 2:12 |
training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,
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| 2:13 |
while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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| 2:14 |
He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
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| 2:15 |
Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one look down on you.
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