Titus 2:3 Cross References - MNT

³ that older women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers or slaves to much wine, but teachers of what is right.

² I beg you to give her a Christian welcome, as the saints should; and to assist her in any matter in which she may have need of you. For she herself has been made an overseer to many people, including myself.

³ As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

⁹ in like manner also the women. I desire women to clothe themselves in suitable apparel, adorning themselves with reverence and self-restraint; not with hair plaited with gold or pearls, or with expensive clothes, ¹⁰ but (as becomes women proclaiming godliness) with the ornament of good deeds.

⁸ Deacons, likewise, must be serious, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of gain,

¹¹ Deaconesses likewise must be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

⁵ Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has fixed her hope on God, and devotes herself to supplications and prayers, day and night. ⁶ But she who lives in wantonness is dead even while she still lives. ⁷ Keep admonishing them regarding these things, so that they may be irreproachable. ⁸ But if any one fails to provide for his own, and especially for his kindred, he has denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. ⁹ A widow, to be placed upon the list, must be not less than sixty years old, and one who has been the wife of but one husband. ¹⁰ She must be well reputed for good works, as one who has brought up a family, received strangers with hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved the distressed, and diligently followed every good work.

²³ Do not continue to drink nothing but water, but take a little wine for your stomach's sake, and your frequent attacks of illness.

⁷ For indeed a presiding officer, as God's steward, ought to be blameless, not self-willed or quick-tempered, not a drunkard or violent, or greedy of filthy lucre;

⁴ They should train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

¹² And this too, although you ought by this time to be teaching others, you are still needing some one to teach you the very rudiments of divine revelation. You need milk, not solid food.

³ Your adornment ought not to be the outward adornment of plaited hair and golden jewels and the wearing of beautiful dresses; ⁴ but rather that hidden personality of the heart, the imperishable ornament of a quiet and gentle spirit, which in the sight of God is indeed precious. ⁵ For in this way in the olden time the holy women also, who put their trust in God, used to adorn themselves. They were ever in submission to their own husbands;

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you are tolerating that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she is teaching and leading my slaves astray, leading them to practise immorality, and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.