Titus 2:3
Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well,
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In Context
2Old men should be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,
1 Timothy 3:8Similarly, deacons must be chaste, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not pursuing tainted profit,
1 Timothy 5:5But she who is truly a widow and is destitute, let her hope in God, and let her be urgent in supplications and prayers, night and day.
Titus 1:7And a bishop, as a steward of God, must be without offense: not arrogant, not short-tempered, not a drunkard, not violent, not desiring tainted profit,
Hebrews 5:12For even though it is the time when you ought to be teachers, you are still lacking, so that you must be taught the things that are the basic elements of the Word of God, and so you have been made like those who are in need of milk, and not of solid food.
Revelation 2:20But I have a few things against you. For you permit the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat the food of idolatry.
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 →