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

So then I would have the men everywhere pray, lifting to God holy hands which are unstained with anger or strife;

The younger

But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they begin to chafe against the yoke of Christ, they want to marry,

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.

But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Give

Let all who are under the yoke of slavery hold their own masters to be deserving of honour, so that the name of God and the Christian teaching may not be spoken against.

Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, you should come to this judgement--that we must not put a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything to trip him up.

But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.

industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

You are to be envied, if you are being reproached for bearing the name of Christ; for in that case the Spirit of glory-- even the Spirit of God--is resting upon you.

To speak reproachfully

and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they said, "saved others: let him save himself, if he is God's Anointed, the Chosen One."

General references

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