002:002 Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience. 002:003 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right. 002:004 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives, 002:005 industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach. 002:006 In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet, 002:007 and above all make your own life a pattern of right conduct, having in your teaching no taint of insincerity, but a serious tone, 002:008 and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us. 002:009 Exhort slaves to be always obedient to their owners, and to give them satisfaction in everything, not contradicting and not pilfering, 002:010 but manifesting perfect fidelity and kind feeling, in order to bring honour to the teaching of our Saviour, God, in all things. 002:011 For the grace of God has displayed itself with healing power to all mankind, 002:012 training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time, 002:013 in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope-- the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; 002:014 who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works. 002:015 Thus speak, exhort, reprove, with all impressiveness. Let no one make light of your authority. 003:001 Remind people that they must submit to the rulers who are in authority over them; that they must obey the magistrates, be prepared for every right action, 003:002 not speak evil of any one, nor be contentious, but yield unselfishly to others and constantly manifest a forgiving spirit towards all men. 003:003 For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. 003:004 But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we, 003:005 as righteous men, had done, but as the result of His own mercy He saved us by means of the bath of regeneration and the renewal of our natures by the Holy Spirit,