Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,
Titus 2:3 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 The aged women likewise, becoming holy in a serene state of mind, not accusers, not slaves to much wine, teachers of good; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Bid the older women similarly to be reverent and devout in their deportment as becomes those engaged in sacred service, not slanderers or slaves to drink. They are to give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble, American Standard Version (1901) that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; Common English Bible Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in their behavior, teaching what is good, rather than being gossips or addicted to heavy drinking. Catholic Public Domain Version Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The aged women, in like manner, in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well: |
Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,
That ye receive her in the Lord, worthy of the holy ones, and encourage her in whatever thing she have need of you: for she also has been the rule of many, and of myself.
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
Deacons likewise grave, not speaking equivocally, not holding to much wine, not occupied in sordid gain;
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach and thy frequent weaknesses.
For a bishop must be irreproachable, as steward of God; not self-sufficient, not prone to anger, not intemperate, not a striker, not occupied in sordid gain.
That they render the young women discreet, to be lovers of the husband, lovers of the children,
For also ye ought to be teachers for the time, again ye have need for some one to teach you the elements of the beginning of the sayings of God; and have become those having need of milk, and not of firm food.
But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.