1 Timothy 5:14-15

Instructions for the Church

14 So I would have u younger widows marry, bear children, v manage their households, and w give the adversary no occasion for slander. 15 x For some have already strayed after Satan.

  1. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 7:9
    But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
  2. Cross References
    Titus 2:5
    To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
  3. Cross References
    1 Timothy 6:1
    Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
    Titus 2:5
    To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
    Titus 2:8
    And sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
  4. Cross References
    1 Timothy 1:20
    Among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
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