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Titus 2:5 Cross-References
Explore 20 cross-references for Titus 2:5 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Titus chapter 2 verse 5 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”
Titus 2:5 (KJV)
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Commentary on Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands—five qualities: σώφρονας (sophronas, self-controlled/discreet), ἁγνάς (hagnas, pure/chaste), οἰκουργούς (oikourgous, working at home/domestic), ἀγαθάς (agathas, good/kind), ὑποτασσομένας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν (hypotassomenas tois idiois andrasin, submitting to their own husbands). This isn't universal female subordination but wives to their own husbands—authority in the marriage covenant, not gender hierarchy outside it.That the word of God be not blasphemed (ἵνα μὴ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ βλασφημῆται, hina mē ho logos tou t...
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Cross-References for Titus 2:5
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“with each verse starting with each letter of the Hebrew alphabet”
“be in subjection to your husbands”
“if she has brought up children”
“wives”
“they also learn to be idle”
“I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
“be subject to your own husbands”
“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
“(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:”
“which when translated”