Titus 2:9

Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters, in all things pleasing, not gainsaying:

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

8The sound word that can not be blamed: that he, who is on the contrary part, may be afraid, having no evil to say of us.

10Not defrauding, but in all things shewing good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things:

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:24Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

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

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

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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