Titus 2:5
Older women should teach younger women to control what they say and do and to be pure in every way, to be good workers at home and submissive to their own husbands. The younger women should behave like this in order that no one will speak against the message about God.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
4in order that they may love their husbands and their children.
6As for the younger men, similarly, urge them to control themselves in all that they say and do.
Cross References
Genesis 3:16Then Yahweh said to the woman, “You will have great pain when you give birth to children; you will suffer great pain as your children are being born [DOU]. You will greatly desire your husband to show affection for you, but he will rule over you.”
Genesis 18:9One of them asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He replied, “She is in the tent.”
Psalms 74:10God, how long will our enemies make fun of you [RHQ]? Will they insult you [MTY] forever [RHQ]?
Proverbs 31:10It is very difficult for a man to [RHQ] find a wife who is good and who is capable of doing many things. Any woman who is like that is worth more than jewels.
Acts 9:39So right away Peter got ready and went with them. When they arrived at the house in Joppa, the two men took Peter to the upstairs room where Dorcas’ body was lying. All the widows therecrowded around Peter. They were crying and showing him the cloaks and other garments that Dorcas had made for people while she was still alive.
1 Corinthians 11:3Now, I want you to know that the one who has authority over [MTY] every man is Christ, and the ones who have authority over women are men (OR, their husbands), and the one who has authority over Christ is God.
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 →