14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
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To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. …
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. …
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-16)Directions are here given concerning the taking of widows into the number of those who were employed by the church and had maintenance from the church: Honour widows that are widows indeed . Honour them, that is, maintain them, admit them into office. There was in those times an office in the church in which widows were employed, and that was to tend the sick and the aged, to look to them by the d…
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