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

²³ gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.

⁷ The end of all things is near;^[a] therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers.^(A)

¹¹ Women^[a] likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

¹³ That testimony is true. For this reason rebuke them sharply, so that they may become sound in the faith,^(A)

² Now a bishop^[a] must be above reproach, married only once,^[b] temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher,^(A)

⁸ Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.^(A)

⁸ But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.^(A)

³ For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.^(A)