1 Timothy 5:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹¹ But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ But refuse [to enroll on this list the] younger widows, for when they become restive and their natural desires grow strong, they withdraw themselves against Christ [and] wish to marry [again].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

Common English Bible

¹¹ But don’t accept younger widows for the list. When their physical desires distract them from Christ, they will want to get married.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ But avoid the younger widows. For once they have flourished in Christ, they will want to marry,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry:

1 Timothy 5:11 Cross References

Isaiah 3:16

Moreover the LORD said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Hosea 13:6

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek: Then he forsook God which made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 5:12

having condemnation, because they have rejected their first faith.

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none occasion to the adversary for reviling:

1 Timothy 5:9

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

James 5:5

Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering great swelling words of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;

Revelation 18:3

For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

Revelation 18:7

How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.

Revelation 18:9

And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,