Charles Spurgeon Commentary Titus 2:4-5

"that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, [to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:" — Titus 2:4-5 (ASV)

There were some women who assumed that, the moment they became Christians, they were to run about everywhere. "No," says the apostle, "let them keep at home." There is no gain to the Christian Church when the love, and the industry, and the zeal that ought to make a happy home are squandered on something else.

The young women of Crete appear to have been such that they needed to be taught to love their husbands. That expression does not occur elsewhere in Scripture. Christian women do not need to be told to love their husbands; but these Cretans, just brought out of the slough of sin, had to be taught even this lesson.

Oh, what a blessing love is in the marriage relationship, and what a gracious influence love has on children! How are they to be brought up correctly unless the whole house is perfumed with love?