Titus 2:9

Let servants to their masters be submissive in every thing, and please them, not contradicting,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

8and which no man will despise, that he who riseth against us may be ashamed when he cannot say any thing hateful against us.

10nor pilfering; but let them show their good-trustiness in every thing, that they may adorn in every thing the doctrine of Aloha our Saviour.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:24But as the church is subject to Meshiha, so also (should) wives be unto their husbands in every thing.

Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in every thing your masters according to the flesh, not in the sight of the eye (only), as those who please men, but from a simple heart, and in the fear of the Lord.

1 Peter 2:18And those servants who are among you, be subject to your masters with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the hard and the severe.

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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