Titus 2:3
Elderly women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderous or enslaved to much wine, but teaching what is good,
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
2Elderly men are to be sober-minded, dignified, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and patience.
4so that they can admonish the young women to be loving to their husbands, loving to their children,
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3But fornication, impurity of any kind, and covetousness must not even be mentioned among you, because such things are improper for saints.
1 Timothy 3:8Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, and not greedy for sordid gain.
1 Timothy 5:5Now a woman who is truly a widow and left all alone has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her supplications and prayers.
Titus 1:7For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for sordid gain,
Hebrews 5:12For though you ought to be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food.
Revelation 2:20But I have this against yoʋ: Yoʋ tolerate yoʋr wife Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess while teaching and seducing my servants to commit fornication and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
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 →