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¹ As for you, teach nothing ² but what is agreeable to sound doctrine: advise the aged to be prudent, grave, temperate, sound in faith, ³ in charity, in patience: the aged women likewise, to behave with sanctity of manners, not false accusers, not given to tipling, ⁴ but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands, ⁵ to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, good oeconimists, beneficent, submissive to their husbands, ⁶ that the word of God may not be blasphemed. the young men likewise exhort to be modest. ⁷ In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness, ⁸ gravity; let your doctrine be sound and inoffensive, that your opponents may be ashamed, and have nothing that is ill to say of us. ⁹ Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, to be ¹⁰ entirely obsequious without grumbling. not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

¹¹ For the divine savour has display'd its salutary effects to all mankind: ¹² teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world; ¹³ in expectation of that desirable happiness, the glorious appearance of the supreme God, and of our saviour Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, and qualify us to be his peculiar people, passionately affected to virtue.

¹⁵ these things remonstrate: recommend and enforce with all your authority: guard yourself against all contempt.