Titus 2:3
that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children,
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;
1 Timothy 3:8Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain,
1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night.
Titus 1:7For indeed a presiding officer, as God’s steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;
Hebrews 5:12And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.
Revelation 2:20But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been 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 →