Titus 2:3
similarly older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is good
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In Context
2older men are to be sober, dignified, prudent, sound in the faith, in love and in endurance;
4—so that they may instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints);
1 Timothy 3:8Similarly, deacons must be respectable, not deceitful, not heavy drinkers, not corrupt [financially];
1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is really a widow and desolate has set her hope on God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
Titus 1:7Because as an administrator under God the overseer must be blameless; not self-willed, not hotheaded, not given to wine, not a bully, not avaricious;
Hebrews 5:12Really, because although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary principles of God's oracles all over again; you have come to the point of needing milk, not solid food!
Revelation 2:20“ ‘Nevertheless I have against you that you tolerate your wife Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my slaves to fornicate and to eat things offered 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 →