^{1 Ref} But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine:

^{2 Ref} that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

^{3 Ref} that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

^{4 Ref} that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

^{5 Ref} `to be' sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

^{6 Ref} the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

^{7 Ref} in all things showing thyself an ensample of good works; in thy doctrine `showing' uncorruptness, gravity,