Titus 2:4
That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
KJV
ἵνα σωφρονίζωσιν τὰς νέας φιλάνδρους εἶναι, φιλοτέκνους,
Greek NT
ut prudentiam doceant adolescentulas, ut viros suos ament, filios suos diligant,
Vulgate
that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
ASV
That they may teach the young women to be wise, to love their husbands, to love their children.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
νέος
neos
adjective · 23×
σωφρονίζω
sophronizo
verb · 1×
φίλανδρος
philandros
adjective · 1×
φιλότεκνος
philoteknos
adjective · 1×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: σωφρονίζωσι | Treg: σωφρονίζουσιν
- σωφρονίζωσι — SBLGNT
- σωφρονίζουσιν — Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 5:8 — Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
- 1Thess 4:11 — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
- 1Tim 5:2 — The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
- 1Tim 5:14 — I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
- Col 3:18 — Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
- Deut 24:5 — When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
- Eccl 3:8 — A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
- Heb 10:24 — And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
- Prov 31:27 — She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
- Ps 119:9 — Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
- Ps 148:12 — Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
- Rom 12:3 — For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man t
- Rom 12:17 — Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
- Titus 2:3 — The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;