“and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Titus 2 contains 15 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.