Verse 11

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their physical desires draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 Therefore, I desire that younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.
  • Rev 18:7 : 7 As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and grief, because in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and I will never see grief.'
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, thick, and bloated. Then he forsook the God who made him and treated with contempt the Rock of his salvation.
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 The LORD says, 'Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, walking with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, taking short, mincing steps, and jingling ornaments on their feet,
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 As they were fed, they were satisfied; as they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and so they forgot me.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, only in the Lord. 40 Yet in my opinion, she is happier if she remains as she is—and I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 They will forbid marriage and require abstinence from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 A widow should be enrolled only if she is at least sixty years old and has been faithful to one husband,