Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

The younger

General references

Bible References

The younger

1 Timothy 5:9
Let not a widow be put on the list under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

To wax

Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you are grown fat, you are grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Isaiah 3:16
Moreover the LORD says, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and tripping as they go, and making a jingling with their feet:
Hosea 13:6
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
James 5:5
You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that have just escaped from them who live in error.

They will

1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.
1 Corinthians 7:39
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

General references

Matthew 19:10
His disciples said unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.