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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Likewise, 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. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5to 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. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8and 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. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10and 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. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13while we wait for the blessed hope--the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14who 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. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you. |
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