Titus 2:5
and to be self-controlled, pure-minded, to be watching over their home, to be kind, respecting the authority of their husbands, so that no one will speak badly of God’s message.
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6In the same way with the younger men – encourage them to be self-controlled.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your anguished toil in pregnancy; with pain will you bear children. You will yearn for your husband, but he will rule over you.”
Genesis 18:9Then they said to him, “Where is your wife?” He said, “There, within the tent.”
Psalms 74:10How long, O God, is the foe to insult? Shall the enemy spurn your name forever?
Acts 9:39Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came around him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them.
1 Corinthians 11:3But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the head of every man, that man is the head of woman, and that God is the head of the Christ.
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 →