Titus 2:5

to be discreet, chaste, fond of home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not reviled.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

In Context

4That they may teach the young women to be sober-minded, to love their husbands, to love their children,

6Exhort the young men likewise to be sober-minded,

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Cross References

Acts 9:39Then Peter arose, and went with them; and when he had come, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

1 Corinthians 11:3But I wish you to know, that the head of every man is the Christ, and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

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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