AUV(i)
1 But you should speak those things which agree with sound teaching:
2 Older men should be sober-minded [See note at I Tim. 3:2], dignified [i.e., respectable], sensible, sound in the faith [or, “in their faith”], in their love and in their perseverance.
3 Older women, likewise, should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of what is good.
4 Then they can train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 to be sensible, [morally] pure, [good] homemakers, kind [and] in subjection to their own husbands, so that God’s message will not be spoken against.
6 In the same way, you should exhort the younger men to be sensible.
7 In everything [you do], you should show that you are a [proper] example of doing good deeds. In your teaching show integrity, dignity,
8 and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that the person who opposes [us] will have to be ashamed for not having anything bad to say about us.
9 Slaves should be in subjection to their own masters in everything. They should try hard to please them, without talking back
10 or keeping [part of their master’s] property for themselves, but proving to be completely trustworthy, so that they will make the teaching of God our Savior attractive in every way.