Titus 2:3
Older women likewise are to be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teaching what is good,
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
2Older men are to be sober, serious, temperate, sound in the faith, in love, in endurance.
4so that they may urge the young women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3But sexual immorality and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;
1 Timothy 3:8Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not being given to much wine, not greedy for money,
1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is really a widow and having been left alone, has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
Titus 1:7For a bishop must be unimpeachable, as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
Hebrews 5:12For indeed, although you ought to be teachers by this time, again you have need for someone to teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
Revelation 2:20But I have this against you, that you tolerate your wife Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
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 →