| International Standard Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1But as for you, teach what is consistent with healthy doctrine. | 1But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine. |
| 2Older men are to be sober, serious, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance. | 2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. |
| 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 be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. |
| 4They should encourage the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, | 4In this way they can train the young 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, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited. |
| 6Likewise, encourage the younger men to be sensible. | 6In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. |
| 7Always set an example for others by doing good actions. Teach with integrity and dignity. | 7In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works. 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 wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed to 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 | 9Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, |
| 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 stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior. |
| 11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. | 11For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. |
| 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 instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, 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 await the blessed hope and glorious appearance 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 redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. |
| 15These are the things you should teach. Encourage and refute with full authority. Do not let anyone look down on you. | 15Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you. |
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