Titus 2:9

Exhort bond-servants to be in subjection to their own masters, in all things to be well-pleasing to them,

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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 opposed to us may be put to shame, having no evil thing to say of us.

10not contradicting, not purloining, but showing all good faith; that they may adorn the teaching 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 wives be to their husbands in everything.

Colossians 3:22Bond-servants, obey in all things 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 subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and considerate, but also to the perverse.

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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