Chapter 2

What to preach both to old and young (not only with word but with example also) and to servants. ℣.11 For there are of all sorts in the Church, and they must be instructed accordingly.

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   But do thou speak the things that become sound doctrine. sober, chaste, wise, sound in the faith, in

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   Old men that they be love, in patience.

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   Old women in like manner, in holy attire, not ill speakers, not given to much wine: teaching well,

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   that they may teach the young women wisdom, to love their husbands, to love their children,

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   wise, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, subject to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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   Yong men in like manner exhort that they be sober.

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   In all things shew thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity,

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   the word sound, irreprehensible: that he which is on the contrary part, may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.

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   Servants to be subject to their masters, in all things pleasing, not gainsaying:

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    not defrauding, but in all things shewing good faith, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things.

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    For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:

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    instructing us that denying impiety and worldly desires, we live soberly, and justly, and godly in this world,

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    expecting the blessed hope and advent of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,

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    who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

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    These things speak, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man contemn thee.