Titus 2:3
Aged women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Aged men are to be without wine, noble, serious minded, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.
4so that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or greed, shall not even be named among you as befits the sanctified,
1 Timothy 3:8Helpers likewise, be honorable, not double-tongued, not attending to much wine, not greedy of base gain,
1 Timothy 5:5But the real widow, and made alone, has hoped in God, and continues in entreaties and prayers night and day.
Titus 1:7For the overseer must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-willed, not prone to angry, not a drunkard, not a fighter, not greedy of base gain,
Hebrews 5:12For also men who ought to be teachers because of the time, ye have need again for some man to teach you the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become men who have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Revelation 2:20Nevertheless, I have against thee that thou tolerate thy woman Jezebel. She calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and leads astray my bondmen to fornicate, and to eat idol sacrifices.
Matthew Henry on Titus 2:2-11
Relative Duties. ( a. d. 66.) 1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine: 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; 4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of… Read the whole commentary →