Titus 2:3
Urge the older women likewise, to be reverent in behaviour, not malicious gossips, not slaves to much wine, but teaching good things;
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2Urge the older men to be temperate, dignified, sensible, sound in faith, in love, in steadfastness.
4That they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
Cross References
Ephesians 5:3But sexual immorality, and all impurity, or covetousness, must not even be named among you, as is befitting saints;
1 Timothy 3:8Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for gain;
1 Timothy 5:5Now she who is a widow indeed, and left all alone, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
Titus 1:7For an overseer must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self-willed, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for gain;
Hebrews 5:12For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need for someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.
Revelation 2:20Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and beguiles my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things 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 →