Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, gkeepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that hthe word of God be not blasphemed.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
σώφρονας, ἁγνάς, οἰκουρούς, ἀγαθάς, ὑποτασσομένας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, ἵνα μὴ ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ βλασφημῆται·
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1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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1 Timothy 6:1 LET as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
σωφρονας the word signifies temperate, and imports an ability to govern all our affections and passions. Discretion is but one piece of the fruit.
the word signifieth pure as well as chaste, and chastity only as it is a species of purity.
house-wives, not spending their time in gadding abroad, but in looking to the affairs of their own families.
the same is required of wives, Eph 5:22, and is due from them to their husbands, as being their head.
as for the discharge of their duty towards God, so for the credit and reputation of the gospel, that for their carriage contrary to the rules of nature and morality, as well as of religion, the gospel may not be evil spoken of, as if from that they had learned their ill and indecent behaviour.