1 Timothy 5:11

World English Bible (2000)

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

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  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Rev 18:7 : 7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
  • Hos 13:6 : 6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • 1 Tim 5:9 : 9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

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  • 1 Tim 5:1-10
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    83%

    1 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

    2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

    3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.

    4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

    5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

    6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

    7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.

    8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

    9 Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

    10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

  • 1 Tim 5:12-16
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    82%

    12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

    13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

    14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

    15 For already some have turned aside after Satan.

    16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

  • Titus 2:3-6
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    3 and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4 that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5 to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

    6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;

  • 1 Cor 7:34-37
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    34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.

    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

    36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

    37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

  • 1 Tim 4:7
    70%

    7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

  • 1 Tim 3:11
    70%

    11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

  • Prov 2:17
    70%

    17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

  • Num 30:9
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    9 "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • 1 Cor 7:8-9
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    69%

    8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    69%

    11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.

  • Ezek 44:22
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    22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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    1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:27-29
    3 verses
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    27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

    28 But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

    29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Titus 1:6
    68%

    6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

  • Matt 19:10
    68%

    10 His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    68%

    11 He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

    12 If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6 For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

  • Hos 4:11
    68%

    11 Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

  • 1 Cor 7:32
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    32 But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

  • 1 Cor 5:9
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    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

  • Prov 5:18
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    18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • 2 Cor 11:2
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    2 For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:25
    67%

    25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    67%

    2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Prov 5:20
    67%

    20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Rom 7:3
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    3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    67%

    39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.