Titus 2:4 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴ Then they can train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ So that they will wisely train the young women to be sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) and to love their husbands and their children,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Common English Bible

⁴ That way they can mentor young women to love their husbands and children,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ so that they may teach prudence to the young women, so that they may love their husbands, love their children,

Titus 2:4 Cross References

1 Timothy 5:11

But refuse [to put] younger widows [on the list. See verse 9], because when they become restless for sensual pleasure, contrary to [their commitment to] Christ, they want to get married [again].

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want the younger widows to get married, have children and manage their homes, so that they do not give the enemy [i.e., non-Christians] an opportunity for speaking against [the church].

1 Timothy 5:2

[to] older women as [you would to] mothers; [to] the younger women as [you would to] your sisters, in a [morally] pure way.

Titus 2:3

Older women, likewise, should be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine, teachers of what is good.

Titus 2:5

to be sensible, [morally] pure, [good] homemakers, kind [and] in subjection to their own husbands, so that God’s message will not be spoken against.