3Likewise, 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.


In Context

1 You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.

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 train 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.

Titus 2:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:3The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:3The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3that the elder women in like manner be in deportment as becoming those who have to say to sacred things, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of what is right;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:3The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;