Titus 2:4

4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,

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Titus 2:4 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
English Standard Version (ESV)
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
New Living Translation (NLT)
4 These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children,
The Message Bible (MSG)
4 By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children,
American Standard Version (ASV)
4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
4 In this way they will teach young women to show love to their husbands and children,
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and children,
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children.

Titus 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Titus 2:4

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 ) .

Titus 2:4 In-Context

2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

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