Titus 2:9

bondmen to be subject to their own masters, to make themselves acceptable in everything; not gainsaying;

Darby Translation

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

8a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:

10not robbing [their masters], but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which [is] of our Saviour God in all things.

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Cross References

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

Colossians 3:22Bondmen, obey in all things your masters according to flesh; not with eye-services, as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing the Lord.

1 Peter 2:18Servants, [be] subject with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the ill-tempered.

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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