Titus 2:9

Exhort servants to be subject to their own masters, and to please them well in all things, not contradicting,

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

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 that can not be condemned; that he that is opposed may be ashamed, seeing he has no evil thing to say of us.

10not stealing, but showing all good faithfulness, that they may adorn the teaching 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, let the wives be subject to their own husbands in every thing.

Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but with simplicity of heart, fearing God.

1 Peter 2:18Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the perverse.

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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