1 Timothy 5:14

Weymouth NT

I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.

Cross References

Romans 14:13

Therefore let us no longer judge one another; but, instead of that, you should come to this judgement–that we must not put a stumbling-block in our brother's path, nor anything to trip him up.

2 Corinthians 11:12

But I will persist in the same line of conduct in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who desire an opportunity of getting themselves recognized as being on a level with us in the matters about which they boast.

1 Timothy 2:8

So then I would have the men everywhere pray, lifting to God holy hands which are unstained with anger or strife;

1 Timothy 4:3

forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 5:11

But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they begin to chafe against the yoke of Christ, they want to marry,

1 Timothy 6:1

Let all who are under the yoke of slavery hold their own masters to be deserving of honour, so that the name of God and the Christian teaching may not be spoken against.

Titus 2:5

industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.

Titus 2:8

and healthy language which no one can censure, so that our opponents may feel ashamed at having nothing evil to say against us.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.