1 Timothy 5:11
1 Timothy · New Testament · Chapter 5
“But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;”1 Timothy 5:11
What Does 1 Timothy 5:11 Mean?
1 Timothy 5:11 is found in the book of 1 Timothy, chapter 5, verse 11 of the New Testament. This verse connects to 14 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (14)
These passages are connected to 1 Timothy 5:11 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
1 Corinthians 7:9“But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”1 Timothy 5:14“I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.”Hosea 13:6“According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.”James 5:5“Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.”Isaiah 3:16“Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:”1 Corinthians 7:39“The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.”1 Timothy 5:9“Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,”Titus 2:4“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,”Deuteronomy 32:15“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.”Matthew 19:10“His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.”Romans 7:3“So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.”1 Timothy 4:3“Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.”2 Peter 2:18“For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.”Revelation 18:7“How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.”
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