1 Timothy 5:14

I will therefore that those who are young should marry, and bear children, and conduct their households,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The 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.

In Context

13They also learn idleness, wandering from house to house; and not only idleness, but also to multiply words, and to follow vain (pursuits), and to speak things which they ought not.

15and not give to the adversary any occasion to revile. For already have some begun to turn aside after Satana.

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Cross References

Romans 14:13Then judge not one another, but this determine rather, to lay not a stumbling-block for thy brother.

2 Corinthians 11:12But I do this, and also will do it, to cut off the occasion of them who seek an occasion, that in the thing in which they boast they may be found as we are.

Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:4-17

Directions Concerning Widows. ( a. d. 64.) 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. 7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. 8 But if any provide not… Read the whole commentary →

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