Instructions for Specific Groups

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that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

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that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

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that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

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the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

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in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine showing uncorruptness, gravity,

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sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

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Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing to them in all things; not gainsaying;

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not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.