Titus 2:5

(To be) discrete, chaste, house kepers, good, obedient vnto their owne husbandes, that the worde of God be not blasphemed.

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In The King James Version

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

In Context

4To make the young women sober mynded, to loue their husbandes, to loue their chyldren,

6Young men lykewyse exhort, to be sober mynded.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:16But vnto the woman he sayde: I wyll very much multiplie thy sorowe, and thy griefes of chylde bearyng, In sorowe shalt thou bring foorth children: thy desire [shalbe] to thy husbande, and he shall haue the rule of thee.

Genesis 18:9And they sayde vnto hym: where is Sara thy wife? He aunswered, behold, in the tent.

Proverbs 31:10Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles.

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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