Instructions for Specific Groups

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that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

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and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, 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 God’s word may not be blasphemed.

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Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

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in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

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

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