² Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

⁵ to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.^(A)

⁶ Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled

¹² training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,^(A)