That is a true statement. So deal sharply with them, to have them sound in the faith

Tell the older men to be temperate, serious, masters of themselves, sound in faith, in love, and in stedfastness.

Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

Tell the young men also to be masters of themselves at all points;

Tell servants to be submissive to their masters and to give them satisfaction all round, not to be refractory,

Tell them all this, exhort and reprove, with full authority; let no one slight you.