Titus 2:3-5
New English Translation
3 Older women likewise are to exhibit behavior fitting for those who are holy, not slandering, not slaves to excessive drinking, but teaching what is good. 4 In this way[a] they will train[b] the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled,[c] pure, fulfilling their duties at home,[d] kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message[e] of God may not be discredited.[f]
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- Titus 2:4 tn Grk “that they may train” (continuing the sentence of 2:3).
- Titus 2:4 tn This verb, σωφρονίζω (sōphronizō), denotes teaching in the sense of bringing people to their senses, showing what sound thinking is.
- Titus 2:5 tn Or “sensible.”
- Titus 2:5 tn Grk “domestic,” “keeping house.”
- Titus 2:5 tn Or “word.”
- Titus 2:5 tn Or “slandered.”
Titus 2:3-5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,(A) 4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.(B)
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