What to preach both to old and young (not only with word but with example also) and to servants. 11 For there are of all sorts in the Church, and they must be instructed accordingly.What to preach both to old and yong (not onely with word but with example also) and to seruants. 11 For there are of al sortes in the Church, and they must be instructed accordingly.✦
But do thou speak the things that decent: befit, be suitable to, not "turn into" sound doctrine.BVT doe thou speake the things that become sound doctrine.✦Tu autem loquere quæ decent sanam doctrinam :
2Old men that they be sober, chaste, wise, sound in the faith, in love, in patience.Old men that they be sober, c chast, wise, soūd in the faith, in loue, in patience.senes ut sobrii sint, pudici, prudentes, sani in fide, in dilectione, in patientia :
3Old women in like manner, in holy attire, not ill criminatrices: slanderers, false accusers, not given to much wine: teaching well,Old women in like maner, in holy attire, not il speakers, not giuen to much wine: teaching wel,✦anus similiter in habitu sancto, non criminatrices, non multo vino servientes, bene docentes :
4that they may teach the young women wisdom, to love their husbands, to love their children,that they may teach the yong women wisedom, to loue their husbands, to loue their children,✦ut prudentiam doceant adolescentulas, ut viros suos ament, filios suos diligant,
5wise, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, subject to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.wise, chast, sober, hauing a care of the house, gētle, subiect to their husbandes, that the word of God be not blasphemed.prudentes, castas, sobrias, domus curam habentes, benignas, subditas viris suis, ut non blasphemetur verbum Dei.
6Young men in like manner exhort that they be sober.Yong men in like maner exhort that they be sober.✦Juvenes similiter hortare ut sobrii sint.
7In all things show thyself an example of good works, in doctrine, in integrity, in gravity,In al things shew thy self an example of good workes, in doctrine, in integritie, in grauitie,✦In omnibus teipsum præbe exemplum bonorum operum, in doctrina, in integritate, in gravitate,
8the word sound, irreprehensibile: blameless, that cannot be reproved: that he which is on the contrary part, may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.the word sound, irreprehensible: that he which is on the cōtrarie part, may be afraid, hauing no euil to say of vs.verbum sanum, irreprehensibile : ut is qui ex adverso est, vereatur, nihil habens malum dicere de nobis.
9Servants to be subject to their masters, in all things pleasing, not contradicentes: contradicting, speaking against:* Seruants to be subiect to their maisters, in al things pleasing, not gainsaying:✦Servos dominis suis subditos esse, in omnibus placentes, non contradicentes,
10not defrauding, but in all things showing good faith, that they may adorn the doctrine of our Saviour God in all things.not defrauding, but in al things shewing good faith, that they may adorne the doctrine of our Sauiour God in al things.non fraudantes, sed in omnibus fidem bonam ostendentes : ut doctrinam Salvatoris nostri Dei ornent in omnibus.
11For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men:For the grace of God our Sauiour hath appeared to al men:✦Apparuit enim gratia Dei Salvatoris nostri omnibus hominibus,
12instructing us that denying impiety and worldly desires, we live soberly, and justly, and godly in this world,instructing vs that denying impietie & worldly desires, we liue soberly, and iustly, and godly in this world,erudiens nos, ut abnegantes impietatem, et sæcularia desideria, sobrie, et juste, et pie vivamus in hoc sæculo,
13exspectantes: awaiting, looking for, not merely supposing the blessed hope and adventum: the coming, arrival, not the liturgical season of the glory of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ,expecting the blessed hope and c aduent of the glorie of the great God and our Sauiour IESVS Christ,exspectantes beatam spem, et adventum gloriæ magni Dei, et Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi :
14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.who gaue him self for vs, that he might redeeme vs from al iniquitie, and might cleanse to him self a people acceptable, a pursuer of good workes.✦qui dedit semetipsum pro nobis, ut nos redimeret ab omni iniquitate, et mundaret sibi populum acceptabilem, sectatorem bonorum operum.
15These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man contemnat: despise, scorn, disregard, not "condemn" thee.These things speake and exhort and rebuke with al authoritie. Let no man contemne thee.✦Hæc loquere, et exhortare, et argue cum omni imperio. Nemo te contemnat.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition. Facsimile available in two scans.