To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Keepers at home, х oikourgous (G3626)] - 'guardians of the house.' So C H f g, Vulgate. But 'Aleph (') A Delta G read х oikourgous (G3626)] 'workers at home:' active in household duties (Proverbs 7:11; 1 Timothy 5:13). Good - kind, beneficent (Matthew 20:15; Romans 5:7; 1 Peter 2:18). Not churlish and niggardly, while thrifty as housewives; not harsh to servants.
Obedient, х hupotassomenas (G5293)] - "submitting themselves," as in Ephesians 5:21-24, notes. Their own - marking the duty of subjection which they owe them as being their own husbands (Colossians 3:18). Blasphemed - `evil spoken of.' That no reproach may be cast on the Gospel, through the inconsistencies of its professors (Titus 2:8; Titus 2:10; Romans 2:24; 1 Timothy 5:14; 1 Timothy 6:1).