1 Timothy 5:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

But refuse to enrol younger widows; for when they grow wanton against Christ they desire to marry,

Cross References

Isaiah 3:16

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet;

Hosea 13:6

but when they had fed to the full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked; you waxed fat, you grew thick, you became sleek; then he forsook God who made him, and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.

1 Timothy 4:3

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

1 Timothy 5:12

and so they incur condemnation for having violated their first pledge.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, rule their households, and give the enemy no occasion to revile us.

1 Timothy 5:9

Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband;

James 5:5

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

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Revelation 18:3

For all nations have drunk the wine of her impure passion, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich with the wealth of her wantonness.”

Revelation 18:7

As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning. Since in her heart she says, ‘A queen I sit, I am no widow, mourning I shall never see,’

Revelation 18:9

And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and were wanton with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;