Titus 2:5

Younger women are to be self-controlled, pure, devoted to their homes, kind, and supportive of their husbands, so that God's word is not dishonored. It matters because godly living guards the gospel's reputation before a watching world.

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• Prov 31:10–31Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
• Col 3:18Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
• 1 Pet 3:1–5In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
• 1 Tim 5:10being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
• 1 Tim 5:13–14Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
• Gen 3:16To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
• Eph 5:22–24Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
• Eph 5:33Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
• Prov 7:11She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
• Gen 18:9They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”
• Acts 9:36Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
• 1 Tim 6:1Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
• Acts 9:39Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
• 2 Sam 12:14However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”
• 1 Cor 11:3But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
• Gen 16:8–9He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where did you come from? Where are you going?” She said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.”
• Rom 2:24For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
• Ps 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
• 1 Tim 2:11–12Let a woman learn in quietness with full submission.
• 1 Cor 14:34Let the women be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

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