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1 Timothy 5:14 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" I 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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Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
For some are ➔ already turned aside after Satan.
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let ➔ not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
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1 Timothy 5:1
"Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;"
1 Timothy 5:2
"The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity."
1 Timothy 5:3
"Honour widows that are widows indeed."
1 Timothy 5:4
"But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God."
1 Timothy 5:5
"Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day."
1 Timothy 5:6
"But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."
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