Titus 2:5
to be prudent, chaste, domestic, good, submissive to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
4in order that they instruct the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
6Likewise exhort the young men to be prudent:
Cross References
Acts 9:39And Peter rising up came along with them; whom, on arrival, they led to the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing him the chitoons and himations, so many as Dorcas made, while with them.
1 Corinthians 11:3But I wish you to know, that Christ is the head of every man; and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of 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 →