1 Timothy 5:14
So I prefer young widows to marry again, to bear children, to look after their households, and not to afford our opponents any chance of reviling us.
Titus 2:5
to be mistress of themselves, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands ??otherwise it will be a scandal to the gospel.
1 Timothy 6:1
Let all servants who are under the yoke of slavery remember that their masters are entitled to perfect respect ??otherwise it will be a scandal to the Name of God and to our doctrine.
Titus 2:8
let your words be sound and such that no exception can be taken to them, so that the opposite side may be confounded by finding nothing that they can say to our discredit.
Luke 23:35-41
The people stood and looked on, and even the rulers sneered at him, saying, "He saved others, let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!"
Romans 14:13
So let us stop criticizing one another; rather make up your mind never to put any stumbling-block or hindrance in your brother's way.
1 Corinthians 7:8-9
To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.
2 Corinthians 11:12
No, I intend to go on as I am doing, in order to checkmate those who would fain make out that in the apostolate of which they boast they work on the same terms as I do.
1 Timothy 2:8
Now I want the men to offer prayer at any meeting of the church; and let the hands they lift to heaven be holy ??they must be free from anger and dissension.
1 Timothy 5:11
Refuse to put young widows on the list, for when their wanton desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.
1 Peter 4:14-15
If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.