Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled,

Instead he must be hospitable, devoted to what is good, sensible, upright, devout, and self-controlled.

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,