Verse 3
3. 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 (1 Timothy 2:10- :). 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; 1 Timothy 2:12); influencing for good the younger women by precept and example.
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