the faith of whole families, teaching what they ought not,
just for the sake of making money.
001:012 One of their own number--a Prophet who is a countryman of theirs--
has said, "Cretans are always liars, dangerous animals,
idle gluttons."
001:013 This testimony is true. Therefore sternly denounce them,
that they may be robust in their faith,
001:014 and not give attention to Jewish legends and the maxims of men
who turn their backs on the truth.
001:015 To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving
nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and
consciences are polluted.
001:016 They profess to know God; but in their actions they disown Him,
and are detestable and disobedient men, and for any good work
are utterly useless.
002:001 But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits
wholesome teaching.
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,