2:1 But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits wholesome teaching.

2:2 Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.

2:3 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

2:4 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

2:5 industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

2:6 In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,

2:7 and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone,

2:8 and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

2:9 Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering,

2:10 but manifesting perfect fidelity and kind feeling, in order to bring honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things.

2:11 For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind,

2:12 training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

2:13 in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

2:14 who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.