1 Timothy 5:14 - Tree of Life Version

Therefore, I want the younger widows to get married, have children, manage a household, and give no opportunity to the enemy for slander.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So I would have younger [widows] marry, bear children, guide the household, [and] not give opponents of the faith occasion for slander or reproach.

American Standard Version (1901)

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

Common English Bible

So I want younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their homes so that they won’t give the enemy any reason to slander us. (

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, I want the younger women to marry, to procreate children, to be mothers of families, to provide no ready opportunity for the adversary to speak evil.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I will therefore that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.

1 Timothy 5:14 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 18:6

So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Knead three measures of fine flour and prepare bread loaves!”

Genesis 18:9

Then they said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” “There, in the tent,” he said.

2 Samuel 12:14

However, because by this deed you have made the enemies of Adonai greatly blaspheme, so even the child born to you will surely die.”

Proverbs 14:1

A wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Jeremiah 29:6

take wives and have sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and do not decrease.

Daniel 6:4

Now this Daniel was distinguishing himself among the supervisors and satraps because he had an extraordinary spirit in him. In fact, the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.

Romans 14:13

Therefore let us not judge one another from now on, but rather decide this—not to put a stumbling block or a trap in the way of a brother.

2 Corinthians 11:12

But what I am doing I will continue to do, so that I may cut off the opportunity from those who want an opportunity in what they boast about to also be regarded just as we are.

1 Timothy 2:8

So I desire all men to pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without anger and argument.

1 Timothy 4:3

They forbid people to marry; they command people to abstain from foods that God created for the faithful to share with thanksgiving, having come to know the truth.

1 Timothy 5:11

But refuse younger widows; for when their sensual desires draw them away from the Messiah, they want to get married—

1 Timothy 6:1

Let all who are under the yoke as slaves consider their own masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered.

Titus 2:5

to be self-controlled, pure, managing their household, kind, submitted to their own husbands, so that God’s word may not be dishonored.

Titus 2:8

sound speech beyond criticism—so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.