Titus 2:3 Cross References - Moffatt

³ Tell the older women also to be reverent in their demeanour and not to be slanderers or slaves to drink;

² receive her in the Lord as saints should receive one another, and give her any help she may require. She has been a help herself to many people, including myself.

³ Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you — that is the proper course for saints to take;

⁹ Women in turn are to dress modestly and quietly in seemly garb; they are not to adorn themselves with plaits of hair, with gold or pearls or expensive finery, ¹⁰ but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession).

⁸ Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering;

¹¹ Their wives must be serious too; they must not be slanderers but temperate and absolutely trustworthy.

⁵ The really forlorn widow has her hope fixed on God, night and day she is at her prayers and supplications; ⁶ whereas the widow who plunges into dissipation is dead before ever she dies. ⁷ So lay down the following rules, to prevent any reproach being incurred. ⁸ Whoever does not provide for his own relatives and particularly for his own family, has repudiated the faith: he is worse than an infidel. ⁹ No one under sixty is to be put on the church's list of widows; and she must have been only once married, ¹⁰ she must have a reputation for good service, as a woman who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, relieved distress, and interested herself in all good works.

²³ [Give up being a total abstainer; take a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent attacks of illness.]

⁷ [For a bishop must be above reproach — he is a steward of God's house — he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering;

⁴ they must give good counsel, so that the young women may be trained to love their husbands and children,

¹² Though by this time you should be teaching other people, you still need someone to teach you once more the rudimentary principles of the divine revelation. You are in need of milk, not of solid food.

³ You are not to adorn yourselves on the outside with braids of hair and ornaments of gold and changes of dress, ⁴ but inside, in the heart, with the immortal beauty of a gentle and modest spirit, which in the sight of God is of rare value. ⁵ It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their husbands.

²⁰ Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.