1 Timothy 5:11

New American Bible - revised edition

But exclude younger widows, for when their sensuality estranges them from Christ, they want to marry

Cross References

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with necks outstretched, Ogling and mincing as they go, their anklets tinkling with every step,

Hosea 13:6

When I fed them, they were satisfied; when satisfied, they became proud, therefore they forgot me.

Deuteronomy 32:15

So Jacob ate and was satisfied, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you became fat and gross and gorged. They forsook the God who made them and scorned the Rock of their salvation.

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

1 Timothy 5:12

and will incur condemnation for breaking their first pledge.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would like younger widows to marry, have children, and manage a home, so as to give the adversary no pretext for maligning us.

1 Timothy 5:9

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years old, married only once,

James 5:5

You have lived on earth in luxury and pleasure; you have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

2 Peter 2:18

For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk the wine of her licentious passion. The kings of the earth had intercourse with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her drive for luxury.”

Revelation 18:7

To the measure of her boasting and wantonness repay her in torment and grief; for she said to herself, ‘I sit enthroned as queen; I am no widow, and I will never know grief.’

Revelation 18:9

The kings of the earth who had intercourse with her in their wantonness will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her pyre.