Titus 2:4

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They are to encourage the young women to love their husbands and children,

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  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 Therefore, I desire that younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
  • 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.
  • 1 Tim 5:11 : 11 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their physical desires draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Titus 2:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5 to be self-controlled, pure, committed to their homes, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God may not be slandered.

    6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

    7 In all things, present yourself as an example of good works, with integrity, dignity, and incorruptibility in your teaching.

  • Titus 2:1-3
    3 verses
    85%

    1 As for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound teaching.

    2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance.

    3 Likewise, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not enslaved to much wine, teachers of good things.

  • 1 Tim 5:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13 At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things they should not.

    14 Therefore, I desire that younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

  • 1 Tim 5:1-4
    4 verses
    79%

    1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

    2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.

    3 Honor widows who are truly widows.

    4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show respect within their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    77%

    11 Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded and faithful in all things.

    12 Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their households well.

  • 1 Tim 3:2
    74%

    2 Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

  • 1 Tim 2:15
    74%

    15 But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with self-control.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
    2 verses
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    4 He must manage his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity.

    5 (For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of God’s church?)

  • Col 3:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

    19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    74%

    5 For in this way, in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, submitting to their own husbands.

  • 1 Tim 2:9-12
    4 verses
    73%

    9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

    10 but with good works, which are appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

    11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission.

    12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be quiet.

  • 1 Pet 3:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, so that even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives.

    2 When they observe your pure and reverent behavior.

  • Titus 1:6-8
    3 verses
    72%

    6 An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who are not accused of wild living or rebellion.

    7 For an overseer, as God’s steward, must be blameless—not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, and not greedy for dishonest gain.

    8 But he must be hospitable, a lover of what is good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

  • 1 Tim 5:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9 A widow should be enrolled only if she is at least sixty years old and has been faithful to one husband,

    10 and is well known for her good works: if she has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the feet of the saints, helped those in affliction, and devoted herself to every good work.

    11 But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their physical desires draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry,

  • Eph 6:4
    71%

    4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

  • Eph 5:22
    71%

    22 Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 14:34-35
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    34 Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak but must be in submission, as the law says.

    35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

  • Titus 2:12
    70%

    12 It teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

  • 1 Tim 4:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 Command and teach these things.

    12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.

  • 1 Thess 4:4
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    4 That each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

  • Eph 5:24-25
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    70%

    24 As the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

    25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

  • 1 Tim 4:7
    70%

    7 Reject worldly and silly myths, and instead, train yourself in godliness.

  • Titus 2:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, aiming to be well-pleasing and not argumentative.

    10 They must not pilfer but must demonstrate complete faithfulness, so that they may make the teaching of God our Savior attractive in every way.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
    69%

    6 They are the kind who creep into homes and capture weak-willed women who are burdened with sins and led astray by various desires.

  • 1 Tim 5:16
    69%

    16 If any believing man or woman has widows, let them help them and not let the church be burdened, so that it may assist those who are truly widows.

  • 1 Thess 4:12
    69%

    12 so that you may conduct yourselves properly toward outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    69%

    2 But because of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.