Titus 2:4

making the younger women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children,

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

In Context

3And so also the elder women, that they be in behavior as becometh the fear of God; and not to be slanderers; and not to be addicted to much wine; and to be inculcators of good things,

5to be chaste and holy, and to take good care of their households, and to be obedient to their husbands; so that no one may reproach the word of God.

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Cross References

1 Timothy 5:11But the younger widows do thou reject; for they wax wanton against the Messiah, and desire to be married:

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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