Titus 2:4

Contemporary English Version

so the younger women will be loving wives and mothers.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,

King James Version (1611)
That they may teach the young women to bee sober, to loue their husbands, to loue their children,

King James Version
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

English Standard Version
and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

New American Standard Bible
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

New Century Version
Then they can teach the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Legacy Standard Bible
so that they may instruct the young women in sensibility: to love their husbands, to love their children,

Berean Standard Bible
In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Complete Jewish Bible
thus training the younger women to love their husbands and children,

Darby Translation
that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,

Easy-to-Read Version
By doing this they will teach the younger women to love their husbands and children.

Geneva Bible (1587)
That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbads, that they loue their children,

George Lamsa Translation
That they may teach the young women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children,

Good News Translation
in order to train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

Lexham English Bible
in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,

Literal Translation
that they might train the young women to be lovers of husbands, lovers of children,

Amplified Bible
so that they may encourage the young women to tenderly love their husbands and their children,

American Standard Version
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Bible in Basic English
Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,

Hebrew Names Version
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

International Standard Version
They should encourage the younger women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,1 Timothy 5:14;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
making those who are young modest, to love their husbands and their children,

Murdock Translation
making the younger women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
To make the young women sober mynded, to loue their husbandes, to loue their chyldren,

English Revised Version
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

World English Bible
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
That they instruct the young women to be wise, to love their husbands,

Weymouth's New Testament
They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Moneste thou yonge wymmen, that thei loue here hosebondis, that thei loue her children;

Update Bible Version
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Webster's Bible Translation
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

New English Translation
In this way they will train the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children,

New King James Version
that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

New Living Translation
These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children,

New Life Bible
Older women are to teach the young women to love their husbands and children.

New Revised Standard
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That they may constrain the young women to be, lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,

Douay-Rheims Bible
That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.

Revised Standard Version
and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
to make the younge wemen sobremynded to love their husbandes to love their children

Young's Literal Translation
that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of [their] husbands, lovers of [their] children,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that they enfourme the yonge wemen to be sober mynded, to loue their hussbandes, to loue their childre,

Mace New Testament (1729)
but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,

Simplified Cowboy Version
These older ladies should be an example to the younger ones. They need to show them how to love their husbands and their kids.

Contextual Overview

¹ Titus, you must teach only what is correct. ² Tell the older men to have self-control and to be serious and sensible. Their faith, love, and patience must never fail. ³ Tell the older women to behave as those who love the Lord should. They must not gossip about others or be slaves of wine. They must teach what is proper, ⁴ so the younger women will be loving wives and mothers. ⁵ Each of the younger women must be sensible and kind, as well as a good homemaker, who puts her own husband first. Then no one can say insulting things about God's message. ⁶ Tell the young men to have self-control in everything. ⁷ Always set a good example for others. Be sincere and serious when you teach. ⁸ Use clean language that no one can criticize. Do this, and your enemies will be too ashamed to say anything against you. ⁹ Tell slaves always to please their owners by obeying them in everything. Slaves must not talk back to their owners ¹⁰ or steal from them. They must be completely honest and trustworthy. Then everyone will show great respect for what is taught about God our Savior.

Bible Verse Review
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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 heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:4
God looked at the light and saw that it was good. He separated light from darkness

Genesis 1:28
God gave them his blessing and said: Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.

Genesis 1:31
God looked at what he had done. All of it was very good! Evening came and then morning—that was the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.

Genesis 2:2

The Seventh Day

By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested.

Genesis 5:1
God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:

Genesis 10:1
After the flood Shem, Ham, and Japheth had many descendants.

Genesis 11:10
Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred, he had a son named Arpachshad. He had more children and died at the age of six hundred. This is a list of his descendants:

Genesis 25:12
Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the slave woman of Sarah.

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.