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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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Wine,

Woman

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Rom. 16:2• ²that ye may welcome her in [the] Lord worthily of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she may need you; for she herself too hath been a helper of many and of myself. (Rom. 16:2)

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

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1 Tim. 2:9‑10• ⁹in like manner also that women in seemly deportment adorn themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with braids and gold or pearls or costly apparel,
¹⁰but, what becometh women professing godliness, by good works. (1 Tim. 2:9‑10)

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1 Tim. 3:11• ¹¹Women likewise [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:11)

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1 Tim. 5:5‑10• ⁵Now she that is a widow indeed, and left desolate, hath set her hope on God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
⁶But she that devoteth herself to pleasure is dead while living.
⁷And these things charge that they may be irreproachable.
⁸But if one doth not provide for his own and especially his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
⁹Let a widow be enrolled not more than sixty years old, wife of one man,
¹⁰witnessed of in good works, if she reared children, if she entertained strangers, if she washed saints' feet, if she relieved afflicted [persons], if she followed up every good work. (1 Tim. 5:5‑10)

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1 Peter 3:3‑5• ³whose adornment let it not be the outward one of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel,
⁴but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible of the meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God very precious.
⁵For thus also heretofore the holy women that hoped in God 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• ⁸Deacons likewise [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of base gain,
¹¹Women likewise [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. (1 Tim. 3:8,11)

not given.

Titus 1:7• ⁷For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not passionate, not quarrelsome, not a striker, not a seeker of base lucre; (Titus 1:7)

teachers.

Titus 2:4• ⁴that they may train the young women to be lovers of husbands, lovers of children, (Titus 2:4)

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

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Rev. 2:20• ²⁰But I have against thee that thou lettest alone the woman Jezebel that calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and deceiveth my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols. (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;