5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. …
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; …
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. …
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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