Titus 2:3

also old women in holy habit, not slanderers [or backbiters], not serving much to wine, well-teaching, (so) that they teach prudence.

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In The King James Version

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

In Context

2that old men be sober, chaste, prudent, whole in faith, in love, and patience;

4Admonish thou young women, that they love their husbands, that they love their children;

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Cross References

Ephesians 5:3And fornication, and all uncleanness, or avarice (or greed), be not named among you, as it becometh holy men;

1 Timothy 3:8Also it behooveth deacons to be chaste, not double-tongued, not given much to wine [or not given to much wine], not following foul winning;

1 Timothy 5:5And she that is a widow verily, and desolate, hope [she] into God, (or And she who is truly a widow, and desolate, let her put her hope in God), and be busy in beseechings and prayers night and day.

Titus 1:7For it behooveth a bishop to be without crime, [as] a dispenser of God, not proud, not wrathful, not given to drunkenness, not [a] smiter, not covetous of foul winning (s);

Hebrews 5:12For when ye ought to be masters for a time (or For although ye ought to be teachers by this time), again ye need that ye be taught, which be the letters [or the elements] of the beginning of God’s words. And ye be made those, to whom is need of milk, and not [of] firm meat (or of solid food).

Revelation 2:20But I have against thee a few things; for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, which saith that she is a prophetess, (or for thou hast allowed the woman Jezebel, who saith that she is a prophetess), to teach and deceive my servants, to do lechery, and to eat of things offered 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 →

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