Titus 2:9

[Exhort] servants to be in subjection to their own masters, [and] to be well-pleasing [to them] in all things; not gainsaying;

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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 cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

10not purloining, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:24But as the church is subject to Christ, so [let] the wives also [be] to their husbands in everything.

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

1 Peter 2:18Servants, [be] in subjection 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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