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• You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.

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• Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

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• Likewise, 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.

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• Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

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• to 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.

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• Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

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• In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness

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• and 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.

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• Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,

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• and 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.