Instructions for Specific Groups

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Tell the older men to be serious, sensible, self-controlled and sound in their trust, love and perseverance.

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Likewise, tell the older women to behave the way people leading a holy life should. They shouldn’t be slanderers or slaves to excessive drinking. They should teach what is good,

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thus training the younger women to love their husbands and children,

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to be self-controlled and pure, to take good care of their homes and submit to their husbands. In this way, God’s message will not be brought into disgrace.

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Similarly, urge the young men to be self-controlled,

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and in everything set them an example yourself by doing what is good. When you are teaching, have integrity and be serious;

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let everything you say be so wholesome that an opponent will be put to shame because he will have nothing bad to say about us.

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Tell slaves to submit to their masters in everything, to give satisfaction without talking back

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or pilfering. On the contrary, they should demonstrate complete faithfulness always, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Deliverer more attractive.

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