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But say the things which fit the sound doctrine,
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that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
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and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
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that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God`s word may not be blasphemed.
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Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober-minded;
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in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,