| International Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1But as for you, teach what is consistent with healthy doctrine. | 1But as for you, communicate the behavior that goes with sound teaching. |
| 2Older men are to be sober, serious, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. | 2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. |
| 3Likewise, older women are to show their reverence for God by their behavior. They are not to be gossips or addicted to alcohol, but to be examples of goodness. | 3Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good. |
| 4They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, | 4In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, |
| 5to be sensible and pure, to manage their households, to be kind, and to submit themselves to their husbands. Otherwise, the word of God may be discredited. | 5to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited. |
| 6Likewise, encourage the younger men to be sensible. | 6Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled, |
| 7Always set an example for others by doing good actions. Teach with integrity and dignity. | 7showing yourself to be an example of good works in every way. In your teaching show integrity, dignity, |
| 8Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us. | 8and a sound message that cannot be criticized, so that any opponent will be at a loss, because he has nothing evil to say about us. |
| 9Slaves are to submit to their masters in everything, aiming to please them and not argue with them | 9Slaves are to be subject to their own masters in everything, to do what is wanted and not talk back, |
| 10or steal from them. Instead, they are to show complete and perfect loyalty, so that in every way they may make the teaching about God our Savior more attractive. | 10not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything. |
| 11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. | 11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. |
| 12It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly passions so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in the present age | 12It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, |
| 13as we wait for the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. | 13as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. |
| 14He gave himself for us to set us free from every wrong and to cleanse us so that we could be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good deeds. | 14He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good. |
| 15These are the things you should teach. Encourage and refute with full authority. Do not let anyone look down on you. | 15So communicate these things with the sort of exhortation or rebuke that carries full authority. Don't let anyone look down on you. |
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