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
No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.

To wax

James 5:5
Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.
2 Peter 2:18
For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.

They will

1 Timothy 5:14
I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.
1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.
1 Corinthians 7:39
A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian.

General references

Matthew 19:10
"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."