4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
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I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Here is the third thing in the matter of the epistle. In the chapter foregoing, the apostle had directed Titus about matters of government, and to set in order the things that were wanting in the churches. Now here he exhorts him, I. Generally, to a faithful discharge of his own office. His ordaining others to preach would not excuse himself from preaching, nor might he take care of ministers and…
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