Titus 2:9

Let servants be subject to their own masters, in all things to be agreeable to them; not contradicting;

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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

8sound discourse, incapable of confutation; that he who is in opposition may be confounded, having nothing faulty to say of you.

10not embezzling their property, but demonstrating all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:24As then the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Colossians 3:22Servants, obey in all things your masters after the flesh, not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but, in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

1 Peter 2:18Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but even to the froward.

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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