Youth

So remember your Creator in the days of your youth: Before the days of adversity come, and the years approach when you will say, “I have no delight in them”;

Don’t let anyone despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.

Until I come, give your attention to public reading, exhortation, and teaching.

In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled

in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching.

Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that any opponent will be ashamed, because he doesn’t have anything bad to say about us.