Titus 2:5

to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind and submissive to their husbands, in order that God’s message be not maligned.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

In Context

4They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

6The younger men exhort to be sober-minded; in every respect showing yourself an example of good works.

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Cross References

Acts 9:39So Peter arose and went with them. On his arrival they took him up- stairs, and all the widows stood near him, weeping, and showing him the cloaks and garments which Dorcas used to make, while she was still with them.

1 Corinthians 11:3But I wish you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and of a wife her husband is head; and that God is 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 →

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