Titus 2:9

Servants [are] to be subject to their own masters, to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

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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 discourse [that is] blameless, so that he who is of the contrary may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

10not stealing, but showing all good steadfastness, that the teaching of God our Savior they may adorn in all things.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:24but even as the Assembly is subject to Christ, so also [are] the wives [subject] to their own husbands in everything.

Colossians 3:22the servants: obey those who are masters in all things according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

1 Peter 2:18Servants, be subject in all fear to the masters, 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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