1 Timothy 5:11
Good News Translation
But do not include younger widows in the list; because when their desires make them want to marry, they turn away from Christ,

New Revised Standard Version
But refuse to put younger widows on the list; for when their sensual desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry,

Contemporary English Version
Don't put young widows on the list. They may later have a strong desire to get married. Then they will turn away from Christ

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

the younger.

1 Timothy 5:9,14 Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband. . . .

to wax.

Deuteronomy 32:15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

Isaiah 3:16 And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with stretched out necks, and wanton glances of their eyes, and made a noise as they walked with their feet and moved in a set pace:

Hosea 13:6 According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

James 5:5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

2 Peter 2:18 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

they will.

1 Timothy 5:14 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 4:3 Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.

1 Corinthians 7:39,40 A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband die, she is at liberty. Let her marry to whom she will: only in the Lord. . . .

Context
Support for Widows
10Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work. 11But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry: 12Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.…
Cross References
1 Timothy 5:12
Having damnation, because they have made void their first faith.

Revelation 18:3
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication: and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies.

Revelation 18:7
As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see.

Revelation 18:9
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning:

1 Timothy 5:10
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