Titus 2:9

Exhort servants to submit themselves to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting,

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

8sound speech, that can not be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of us.

10not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching of our Savior God in all things,

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Cross References

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

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

1 Peter 2:18ye servants, being in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and reasonable, but also to the perverse.

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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