Titus 2:4

George Lamsa Translation

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

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,

Contemporary English Version
so the younger women will be loving wives and mothers.

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,

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 BUT you must preach the things which are proper to sound doctrine. ² Teach the older men to be vigilant, sober, pure, sound in faith, in love, charity and patience. ³ Teach the older women likewise, to behave as becomes the worship of God, not false accusers, not enslaved to much wine, but to become teachers of good things; ⁴ That they may teach the young women to be modest, to love their husbands and their children, ⁵ To be discreet, chaste, good home keepers, obedient to their own husbands, so that no one can reproach the word of God. ⁶ Likewise exhort the young to be modest. ⁷ In every thing show yourself an example in all good works, and in your teaching let your word be sound. ⁸ Choose sound words that are instructive so that no man can point the finger of scorn at us, and so that he who is against us may be shamed, when he can find nothing evil to say about us. ⁹ Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters and to please them well in all things not contentious; ¹⁰ Not stealing but manifesting true sincerity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

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
GOD created the heavens and the earth in the very beginning.

Genesis 1:4
And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild beasts that move upon the earth.

Genesis 1:31
And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:1
THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Genesis 2:2
And on the sixth day God, finished his works which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his works which he had made.

Genesis 5:1
THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God created he him;

Genesis 10:1
NOW these are the descendants of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 11:10
These are the descendants of Shem: Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphakhashar, two years after the flood;

Genesis 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abrahams son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarahs maid, bore to Abraham;

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.