Titus 2:5
to be sober, domestic, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not ill reported of.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4that they instruct the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children,
6The younger men in like manner exhort to be sober minded.
Cross References
Acts 9:39Then Peter arose and went with them. And they carried him, on his arrival, into the upper room: and all the widows stood round him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made, whilst she was with them.
1 Corinthians 11:3But I desire you to take notice that the head of every man is Christ; but the head of the woman is the man, and the head of 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 →