| International Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1But as for you, teach what is consistent with healthy doctrine. | 1You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. |
| 2Older men are to be sober, serious, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. | 2Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and 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. | 3Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. |
| 4They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, | 4Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and 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 and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. |
| 6Likewise, encourage the younger men to be sensible. | 6Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. |
| 7Always set an example for others by doing good actions. Teach with integrity and dignity. | 7In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness |
| 8Use wholesome speech that cannot be condemned. Then any opponent will be ashamed because he cannot say anything bad about us. | 8and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. |
| 9Slaves are to submit to their masters in everything, aiming to please them and not argue with them | 9Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, |
| 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. | 10and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive. |
| 11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. | 11For the grace of God has appeared that offers 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 teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, |
| 13as we wait for the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah. | 13while we wait for the blessed hope--the appearing of the glory 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. | 14who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. |
| 15These are the things you should teach. Encourage and refute with full authority. Do not let anyone look down on you. | 15These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you. |
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