Titus 2:9

Avadim (slaves) need to be submissive to their own adonim in everything, to be acceptable, not talking back,

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

8Along with dibur (speech) that is orthodox + 2:8 in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and beyond reproach, that the mitnagged may be brought to bushah (shame), having no lashon hora to say against you.

10Not pilfering, but showing all good reliability, that they may adorn the hora'ah (teaching) of Hashem Moshieinu in all things.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:24But as the Brit Chadasha Kehillah is accountable to Moshiach, so also the nashim should be to their ba'alim in everything.

Colossians 3:22Avadim (servants), each of you obey in all things your adon according to the basar, not with eye service as pleasers of Bnei Adam, but with tom lev, with yirat Shomayim.

1 Peter 2:18Avadim, be submitting in kol yir'ah (all fear) to your adonim (masters), not only to the good and eidele (gentle) adonim, but also to the hard sarei misim (task-masters). + 2:18 Ex 1:11

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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