Letters to the Churches

not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him , being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

Servants--to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour,

that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.