^{1 Ref} But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

^{2 Ref} that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

^{3 Ref} and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, 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 God's word may not be blasphemed.

^{6 Ref} Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober-minded;

^{7 Ref} in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,