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 no widow be chosen under sixty years old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,

To wax

Deuteronomy 32:15
"And Israel waxed fat, and kicked. Thou wast fat, thick and smooth. And he let God go, that made him; and despised the rock that saved him.
Isaiah 3:16
Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Seeing the daughters of Zion are become so proud, and come in with stretched out necks, and with vain wanton eyes; seeing they come in tripping so nicely with their feet:
Hosea 13:6
But when they were well fed and had enough, they waxed proud, and forgot me.
James 5:5
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth and in wantonness. Ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
2 Peter 2:18
For when they have spoken the swelling words of vanity, they beguile with wantonness through the lusts of the flesh them that were clean escaped: but now are wrapped in errors.

They will

1 Timothy 5:14
I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.
1 Corinthians 7:39
The wife is bound to the law as long as her husband liveth. If her husband sleep, she is at liberty to marry with whom she will only in the Lord.

General references

Matthew 19:10
Then said his disciples to him, "If the matter be so between man and wife, then is it not good to marry."