Titus 2:3-6

Teach Sound Doctrine

3 q Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, r not slanderers s or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, t pure, u working at home, kind, and v submissive to their own husbands, w that the word of God may not be reviled. 6 Likewise, urge x the younger men to be self-controlled.

  1. Cross References
    1 Timothy 2:9
    Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire.
  2. Cross References
    1 Timothy 3:11
    Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded, faithful in all things.
  3. Cross References
    1 Timothy 3:8
    Deacons likewise must be dignified, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for dishonest gain.
    1 Timothy 5:23
    (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)
  4. Cross References
    1 Peter 3:2
    When they see your respectful and pure conduct.
  5. Cross References
    1 Timothy 5:14
    So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
  6. Cross References
    Genesis 3:16
    To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
  7. Cross References
    1 Timothy 6:1
    Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
  8. Cross References
    1 Timothy 5:1
    Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers.
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