Titus 2:4

4 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

Titus 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Titus 2:4

That they may teach the young women to be sober
Or to be chaste, modest, and temperate; or to be wise and prudent in their conduct to their husbands, and in the management of family affairs, who have had a large experience of these things before them.

To love their husbands;
to help and assist them all they can; to seek their honour and interest; to endeavour to please them in all things; to secure peace, harmony, and union; to carry it affectionately to them, and sympathize with them in all afflictions and distresses; for this is not so much said in opposition to placing their affections on other men, and to the defilement of the marriage bed, as to moroseness and ill nature.

To love their children;
not with a fond, foolish, loose, and ungoverned affection; but so as to seek their real good, and not only their temporal, but spiritual and eternal welfare; to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; and to use and keep proper discipline and government over them; for otherwise, amidst all the fondness of natural affection, a parent may be said to hate a child, ( Proverbs 13:24 ) .

Titus 2:4 In-Context

2 Exhort aged men to be temperate, grave, sober-minded, robust in their faith, their love and their patience.

3 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.

4 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,

5 industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

6 In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,