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Titus 2:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh ξholiness, not πfalse accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

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or, holy women.

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or, make-bates.

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Rom. 16:2• ²that ye may receive her in the Lord worthily of saints, and that ye may assist her in whatever matter she has need of you; for *she* also has been a helper of many, and of myself. (Rom. 16:2)

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Eph. 5:3• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints; (Eph. 5:3)

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1 Tim. 2:9‑10• ⁹In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,
¹⁰but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works. (1 Tim. 2:9‑10)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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1 Tim. 5:5‑10• ⁵Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
⁶But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead while living.
⁷And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.
⁸But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.
⁹Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,
¹⁰borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if she have diligently followed every good work. (1 Tim. 5:5‑10)

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1 Peter 3:3‑5• ³whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;
⁴but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price.
⁵For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands; (1 Peter 3:3‑5)

holiness.

or holy women.

false accusers.

or, makebates.

1 Tim. 3:8,11• ⁸Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,
¹¹The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:8,11)

not given.

Titus 1:7• ⁷For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means; (Titus 1:7)

teachers.

Titus 2:4• ⁴that they may admonish the young women to be attached to their husbands, to be attached to their children, (Titus 2:4)

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Heb. 5:12• ¹²For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food. (Heb. 5:12)

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Rev. 2:20• ²⁰But I have against thee that thou permittest the woman Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and leads astray my servants to commit fornication and eat of idol sacrifices. (Rev. 2:20)

• The doctrine however sound would be put to shame by irreverent carriage and demeanor. Where they bore themselves as those who had the fear of God before their eyes, it would commend their profession. (“On Titus 2:3-5” by W. Kelly)

• as men are more exposed to the snare of rough or violent actions, so elder women to give vent to their feelings when irritated or in any other way crossed. Idleness too (and often at their time of life there is apt to be a suspension of activity) would give room for injurious gossip. (“On Titus 2:3-5” by W. Kelly)

• Aged women are simply cautioned that they be not enslaved to much wine. Such excitement as it can give becomes not those who, having Christ as their life, are exhorted to be filled with the Spirit (Eph. 5). (“On Titus 2:3-5” by W. Kelly)

• Let them look to it that they be teachers, with the weight which experience gives, of that which is upright and comely. (“On Titus 2:3-5” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

W. Kelly Translation

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that aged women likewise be in deportment reverent, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good;