The aged women likewise, —Paul now shifts the focus of Titus toward the elderly women. He lists five areas of study for them. (1) that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, —They are to live Christian lives in such a way as to be a positive and encouraging example to the younger women. (2) not false accusers, —They are not to be slanderers or gossipers. Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. (3) not given to much wine, — they are to abstain from strong drink. The bible speaks plainly about the evils of intoxicating wine: Proverbs 23:20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: Proverbs 23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags. Proverbs 23:29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? Proverbs 23:30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine. Proverbs 23:31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright. Proverbs 23:32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Proverbs 23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things. Proverbs 23:34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. Proverbs 23:35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. (4) teachers of good things; — They are to instruct others to live lives that likewise reflect the teachings of Christ.