Titus 2:3-5 Women's Lessons

Titus 2:3-5 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

In Titus 2 Titus is taught that he must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine and do this bearing in mind the sort of people in the churches - older men, younger men, older women and younger women. In verses 3-5 he cleverly rolls the instructions to the younger women into what the older women are to be told. Older women are told positively to be reverent in the way they live and to teach what is good and negatively not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine something that could easily happen with time on their hands. By this means they will be a good influence on the rising generation of women who they can urge in at least five things - loving their husbands and children, being self-controlled and pure, being busy at home, being kind, and being subject to their husbands. The pastors role is clearly not to teach young women but to he is to teach the older women - encouraging reverence and warning against gossip and drink and helping them to teach the younger women to love their families, subject to their husbands, be self-controlled and pure, work hard at home and be kind in general. Paul sees this is vital because the last thing they needed in Crete was to give people an excuse to malign the word of God. No churches want that.