Titus 2:3
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.
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 God be not blasphemed.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
- KJV
- The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
- WEB
- and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
- ASV
- that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
- DARBY
- that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;
- BLB
- older [women] likewise reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not being enslaved to much wine, teachers of good,
- ÅB
- likeså at gamle kvinner i sin ferd skal te seg som det sømmer seg for hellige, ikke fare med baktalelse, ikke være slaver av drikk, men veiledere i det gode,
- OTB
- Likeså skal eldre kvinner føre seg slik som det sømmer seg for hellige, ikke baktalende, ikke avhengige av mye vin, men være lærere i det gode,
- B1930
- likeså at gamle kvinner i sin ferd skal te sig som det sømmer sig for hellige, ikke fare med baktalelse, ikke være træler av drikk, men veiledere i det gode,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Titus 2:4
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Read in context1 Timothy 3:11
Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Read in context1 Peter 3:3–5
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Read in context1 Timothy 2:9–10
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
Read in contextTitus 1:7
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
Read in context1 Timothy 5:5–10
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
Read in contextRomans 16:2
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:8
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
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