Titus 2:4
2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
3 Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.
In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
6 In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
- KJV
- That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
- WEB
- that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,
- ASV
- that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
- DARBY
- that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,
- BLB
- so that they may make sober-minded the young [women] to be lovers of [their] husbands, lovers of [their] children,
- ÅB
- for at de kan lære de unge kvinner å elske sine menn og sine barn,
- OTB
- for at de kan lære de unge kvinnene å elske sine menn og sine barn,
- B1930
- forat de kan lære de unge kvinner å elske sine menn og sine barn,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Timothy 5:14
So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
Read in context1 Timothy 5:2
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Read in context1 Timothy 5:11
But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,
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