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1 Timothy 5:11

WEB

11But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

KJV

11But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

BSB

11But refuse to enroll younger widows. For when their passions draw them away from Christ, they will want to marry,

FBV

11Don't take on widows who are younger, because when their physical desires make them want to remarry they abandon their dedication to Christ.

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Extra References

1 Timothy 5:14

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


Hosea 13:6

6According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.


James 5:5

5[+] You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.


Isaiah 3:16

16Moreover the LORD said, “Because the daughters of Zion are arrogant, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking daintily as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;


1 Corinthians 7:39-40

39A 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 whomever she desires, only in the Lord. 40But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have Gods Spirit.


Deuteronomy 32:15

15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.


1 Timothy 4:3

3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.


Revelation 18:7

7However 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.’


1 Timothy 5:9

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


2 Peter 2:18

18For, 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;