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To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

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They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

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But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:

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that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

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the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things-

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that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

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Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,

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in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility,

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sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

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Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,

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not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.