Titus 2:9

Bondmen are to be obedient to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not speaking contrary,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

In Context

8sound speech, irreproachable, so that the man of opposition may be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

10not pilfering, but demonstrating all good fidelity, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:24But as the church is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.

Colossians 3:22Bondmen, obey in all things those masters according to flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

1 Peter 2:18Household servants, submitting to the masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wayward.

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 →

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