Titus 2:3
Good News Translation
In the same way instruct the older women to behave as women should who live a holy life. They must not be slanderers or slaves to wine. They must teach what is good,

New Revised Standard Version
Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or slaves to drink; they are to teach what is good,

Contemporary English Version
Tell the older women to behave as those who love the Lord should. They must not gossip about others or be slaves of wine. They must teach what is proper,

New American Bible
Similarly, older women should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to drink, teaching what is good,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

as.

Romans 16:2 That you receive her in the Lord as becometh saints and that you assist her in whatsoever business she shall have need of you. For she also hath assisted many, and myself also.

Ephesians 5:3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire: . . .

1 Timothy 3:11 The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

1 Timothy 5:5-10 But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God and continue in supplications and prayers night and day. . . .

1 Peter 3:3-5 Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel: . . .

holiness.

1 Timothy 3:8,11 Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre: . . .

not given.

Titus 1:7 For a bishop must be without crime, as the steward of God: not proud, not subject to anger, nor given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre:

teachers.

Titus 2:4 That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.

Hebrews 5:12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

Revelation 2:20 But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.

Context
Teaching Sound Doctrine
2That the aged men be sober, chaste, prudent, sound in faith, in love, in patience. 3The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well: 4That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.…
Cross References
Romans 1:29
Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

1 Timothy 3:8
Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

1 Timothy 3:11
The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

Titus 2:4
That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.

Titus 2:2
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