提多书 2:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

好提醒年輕的婦女愛丈夫愛兒女，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
好 指 教 少 年 妇 人 ， 爱 丈 夫 ， 爱 儿 女 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ But you must tell everyone what to do to follow the true teaching. ² Teach older men to be self-controlled, serious, wise, strong in faith, in love, and in patience. ³ In the same way, teach older women to be holy in their behavior, not speaking against others or enslaved to too much wine, but teaching what is good. ⁴ Then they can teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, ⁵ to be wise and pure, to be good workers at home, to be kind, and to yield to their husbands. Then no one will be able to criticize the teaching God gave us. ⁶ In the same way, encourage young men to be wise. ⁷ In every way be an example of doing good deeds. When you teach, do it with honesty and seriousness. ⁸ Speak the truth so that you cannot be criticized. Then those who are against you will be ashamed because there is nothing bad to say about us. ⁹ Slaves should yield to their own masters at all times, trying to please them and not arguing with them. ¹⁰ They should not steal from them but should show their masters they can be fully trusted so that in everything they do they will make the teaching of God our Savior attractive.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the: 1 Timothy 5:2, 1 Timothy 5:11, 1 Timothy 5:14

sober: or, wise, Titus 2:2

to love their husbands: 1 Timothy 5:14

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:5 - a man Esther 1:22 - that every man Psalms 119:9 - shall Psalms 148:12 - young men Proverbs 31:27 - General Ecclesiastes 3:8 - time to love Romans 12:3 - soberly Romans 12:17 - Provide Romans 15:14 - able Colossians 3:18 - submit 1 Thessalonians 4:11 - and to do Titus 2:3 - teachers Titus 2:12 - soberly Hebrews 5:12 - teachers Hebrews 10:24 - love 1 Peter 3:5 - the holy 1 Peter 5:8 - sober

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the sky and the earth.

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them and said, "Have many children and grow in number. Fill the earth and be its master. Rule over the fish in the sea and over the birds in the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1
So the sky, the earth, and all that filled them were finished.

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 5:1
This is the family history of Adam. When God created human beings, he made them in his own likeness.

Genesis 10:1
This is the family history of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah. After the flood these three men had sons.

Genesis 11:10
This is the family history of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, his son Arphaxad was born.

Genesis 25:12
This is the family history of Ishmael, Abraham's son. (Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was Ishmael's mother.)

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That they may teach the young women to be sober,.... Or to be chaste, modest, and temperate; or to be wise and prudent in their conduct to their husbands, and in the management of family affairs, who have had a large experience of these things before them.

To love their husbands; to help and assist them all they can; to seek their honour and interest; to endeavour to please them in all things; to secure peace, harmony, and union; to carry it affectionately to them, and sympathize with them in all afflictions and distresses; for this is not so much said in opposition to placing their affections on other men, and to the defilement of the marriage bed, as to moroseness and ill nature.

To love their children; not with a fond, foolish, loose, and ungoverned affection; but so as to seek their real good, and not only their temporal, but spiritual and eternal welfare; to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; and to use and keep proper discipline and government over them; for otherwise, amidst all the fondness of natural affection, a parent may be said to hate a child, Proverbs 13:24.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That they may teach the young women to be sober - Margin, “wise” - a word similar to that which in Titus 2:2 is rendered “temperate,” and in 1 Timothy 3:2, “sober.” The meaning is, that they should instruct them to have their desires and passions well regulated, or under proper control.

To love their husbands - φιλάνδρους philandrous. This word occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. In Ephesians 5:25, Paul directs husbands to love their wives, and in Ephesians 5:33, the wife to reverence her husband, and here he says that it should be one of the first duties enjoined Son the wife that she should love her husband. All happiness in the marriage relation is based on mutual love. When that departs, happiness departs. No wealth or splendor in a dwelling - no gorgeousness of equipage or apparel - no magnificence of entertainment or sweetness of music - and no forms of courtesy and politeness, can be a compensation for the want of affection. Mutual love between a husband and wife will diffuse comfort through the obscurest cottage of poverty; the want of it cannot be supplied by all that can be furnished in the palaces of the great.

To love their children - Nature prompts to this, and yet there are those so depraved that they have no maternal affection; Notes, Romans 1:31. Religion reproduces natural affection when sin has weakened or destroyed it, and it is the design of Christianity to recover and invigorate all the lost or weakened sensibilities of our nature.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 4. That they may teach the young women to be sober — That it was natural for the young to imitate the old will be readily allowed; it was therefore necessary that the old should be an example of godly living to the young. St. Jerome, taking it for granted that drunkenness and impurity are closely connected, asks this serious question: Quomodo potest docere anus adolescentulas castitatem, cum, si ebrietatem vetulae mulieris adolescentula fuerit imitata, pudica esse non possit? "How can an elderly woman teach young women chastity, when, if the young woman should imitate the drunkenness of the matron, it would be impossible for her to be chaste?"

To love their husbands — The duties recommended in this and the following verses are so plain as to need no comment; and so absolutely necessary to the character of a wife, that no one deserves the name who does not live in the practice of them.