Titus 2:3
The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
4That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:
1 Timothy 3:8Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:
1 Timothy 5:5But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God, and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.
Titus 1:7For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:
Hebrews 5:12For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Revelation 2:20But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach, and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication, and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.
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 →