Titus 2:4
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In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,
Commentaries
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to be sober--Greek, "self-restrained," "discreet"; the same Greek as in Tit 2:2, "temperate." (But see on Tit 2:2; compare Note, Ti2 1:7). ALFORD therefore translates, "That they school (admonish in their duty) the young women to be lovers of their husbands," &c. (the foundation of all domestic happiness). It was judicious that Titus, a young man, should admonish the young women, not directly, but through the older women.
Open source ↗The apostle here directs Titus about the faithful discharge of his own office generally (Tit 2:1), and particularly as to several sorts of persons (Tit 2:2-10) and gives the grounds of these and of other following directions (Tit 2:11-14), with a summary direction in the close (Tit 2:15).
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So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.
older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,