Titus 2:3 Cross References - MLV

³ Likewise, teach elderly-women to be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers, not having been enslaved to much wine, but teachers of what is good,

² in order that you should accept her in the Lord, worthy of the holy-ones, and that you should stand beside her in whatever matter she has need from you. For she herself has also become an assistant of many, and of me myself.

³ But do not let fornication and all uncleanness or greed even be named among you, as is suitable to holy-ones;

⁹ Likewise also, the women to adorn themselves in a respectable array, with modesty and self-discipline; not in hair braids or gold or pearls or costly garments; ¹⁰ but with what is suitable to women professing godliness through good works.

⁸ Deacons likewise must be honorable, not double-tongued, not taking-heed to much wine, not covetous;

¹¹ Women likewise must be honorable, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

⁵ Now she who really is a widow and has been left alone and has hoped in God and remains in supplications and prayers night and day. ⁶ But she who is self-indulgent has died, while still living. ⁷ Also command these things, in order that they may be unimpeachable. ⁸ But if anyone is not planning-for his own and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
⁹ Do not let a widow be enrolled who is less than sixty years old, having become the wife of one man, ¹⁰ being testified of in good works; if she has reared children, if she was hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the holy-ones’feet, if she has relieved those being afflicted, if she has followed after every good work.

²³ No longer be a drinker of water only, but use a small amount of wine because of your stomach and your frequent sicknesses.

⁷ For it is essential for the overseer to be irreproachable as God’s steward; not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not a drunkard, not a bully, not covetous;

⁴ in order that they may train the young women to be lovers of their husbands, to love their children,

¹² For you also ought to be teachers by now because of the time, but you again have need of one to teach you what are the fundamental principles of the beginning oracles of God, and have become ones having need of milk and not of solid nourishment.

³ whose adornment, do not let it be the outward adornment of braiding the hair, and of placing on of gold things or of clothing of expensive garments; ⁴ but let it be the hidden human things of the heart, in the incorruptible clothing of a meek and quiet spirit, which is greatly-valued in God’s sight. ⁵ For so, the holy women, those also hoping in God, were previously adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands;

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are allowing your woman Jezebel, she who calls herself a prophetess, and she who is teaching and misleading my bondservants to fornicate and to eat idol-sacrifices.