Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
behaviour--"deportment."
as becometh holiness--"as becometh women consecrated to God" [WAHL]: being by our Christian calling priestesses unto God (Ephesians 5:3; 1 Timothy 2:10). "Observant of sacred decorum" [BENGEL].
not false accusers--not slanderers: a besetting sin of some elderly women.
given to much wine--the besetting sin of the Cretans (Titus 1:12). Literally, "enslaved to much wine." Addiction to wine is slavery (Romans 6:16; 2 Peter 2:19).
teachers--in private: not in public (1 Corinthians 14:34; 1 Timothy 2:11-12); influencing for good the younger women by precept and example.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Timothy 2:9-10
1 Timothy 3:11
2 Timothy 3:3
Titus 2:1
Titus 2:2
Titus 2:11
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