1 Timothy 5:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

1 Timothy 5:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Titus 2:5
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
1 Timothy 6:1
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.
1 Corinthians 7:8-9
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. …
Proverbs 31:27-29
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. …
Titus 2:8
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.

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Betrothal Commandments Concubinage Courtship Discipleship Disobedience to God Divorce Dowry

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 di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. younger women--rather, as ellipsis ought to be supplied, “the younger widows,” namely younger widows in general, as distinguished from the older widows taken on the roll of presbyteresses (1Ti 5:9). The “therefore” means seeing that young widows are exposed to such temptations, “I will,” or “desire,” &c. (1Ti 5:11-13). The precept here that they should marry again is not inconsistent with 1Co…