Titus 2:9
Good News Translation
Slaves are to submit themselves to their masters and please them in all things. They must not talk back to them

New Revised Standard Version
Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect; they are not to talk back,

Contemporary English Version
Tell slaves always to please their owners by obeying them in everything. Slaves must not talk back to their owners

New American Bible
Slaves are to be under the control of their masters in all respects, giving them satisfaction, not talking back to them

Douay-Rheims Bible
Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things pleasing, not gainsaying:

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Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things pleasing, not gainsaying:

servants.

Ephesians 6:5-8 Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ. . . .

Colossians 3:22-25 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh: not serving to the eye, as pleasing men: but in simplicity of heart, fearing God. . . .

1 Timothy 6:1,2 Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blasphemed. . . .

1 Peter 2:18-25 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward. . . .

to please.

Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the church is subject to Christ: so also let the wives be to their husbands in all things.

answering again.

Context
Teaching Sound Doctrine
8The sound word that can not be blamed: that he who is on the contrary part may be afraid, having no evil to say of us. 9Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters: in all things pleasing, not gainsaying: 10Not defrauding, but in all things shewing good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.…
Cross References
Ephesians 6:5
Servants, be obedient to them that are your lords according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to Christ.

1 Timothy 6:1
Whosoever are servants under the yoke, let them count their masters worthy of all honour; lest the name of the Lord and his doctrine be blasphemed.

Titus 2:8
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