1 Timothy 5:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

I will

1 Timothy 2:8

The younger

Give

1 Peter 4:14

To speak reproachfully

Luke 23:35

General references

Matthew 19:10

Bible References

I will

Therefore I wish that men in every place would all pray, holding up holy hands, without wrath and doubting:

The younger

But reject the younger widows: for when they may wax wanton against Christ, they wish to marry;

forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may remain even as I:

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Give

Let the servants so many as are under the yoke, esteem those who are their masters worthy of all honor, in order that the name and doctrine of God may not be blasphemed.

Then let us no longer judge one another: but rather judge this, not to place before a brother an offence for a stumblingblock.

But what I am doing, I indeed will do, in order that I may cut off occasion from those wishing occasion, in order that in whatsoever they may glory, they may be found even as we are.

to be prudent, chaste, domestic, good, submissive to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be blasphemed.

If you suffer reproach in the name of Christ, happy are you, because the spirit of the glory and the spirit of God rest on you.

To speak reproachfully

The people stood looking: and the rulers were even mocking with themselves, saying, He saved others; let Him save Himself, if He is the Christ, the elect of God.

General references

His disciples say to Him, If the cause of a man with his wife is thus, it is better not to marry.