Titus 2:9

Exhort bondservants to be subject to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not talking back,

English Majority Text (NT)

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, so that those who oppose you may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

10not embezzling, but showing good faith, so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.

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Cross References

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

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

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

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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