Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, sober, having a care of the house, gentle, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children,
6Young men, in like manner, exhort that they be sober.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.
Genesis 18:9And when they had eaten, they said to him: Where is Sara thy wife? He answered: Lo, she is in the tent.
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
Proverbs 31:10Who shall find a valiant woman? far and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
Acts 9:39And Peter rising up, went with them. And when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber. And all the widows stood about him weeping, and shewing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made them.
1 Corinthians 11:3But I would have you know, that the head of every man is 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 →