1 Timothy 5:14 BSB — MannaFest

1 Timothy 5:14

So I advise the younger widows to marry, have children, and manage their households, denying the adversary occasion for slander.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Tertullian

On Monogamy (220)

"But again, writing to Timotheus, he 'wills the very young (women) to marry, bear children, act the housewife.'" He is (here) directing (his speech) to such as he denotes above-"very young widows," who, after being, "apprehended" in widowhood, and (subsequently) wooed for some length of time, after they have had Christ in their affections, "wish to marry, having judgment, because they have rescinded the first faith,"-that (faith), to wit, by which they were "found" in widowhood, and, after professing it, do not persevere.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

I counsel therefore the younger women - Widows or virgins, such as are not disposed to live single. To marry, to bear children, to guide the family - Then will they have sufficient employment of their own.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Observe, If housekeepers do not mind their business, but are tattlers, they give occasion to the adversaries of Christianity to reproach the Christian name, which, it seems, there were some instances of,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I will therefore that the younger women marry - As the preceding discourse has been about the younger widows, and this is an inference from it; it is most evident that by the younger women the apostle means the young widows. These he considers unfit for the office of the female diaconate, and therefore wills them to marry, educate children, and give themselves wholly up to domestic affairs. Here the apostle, so far from forbidding second marriages, positively enjoins or at least recommends them. And what man of sense could have done otherwise in the cases he mentions?

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Βούλομαι	Boulomai	I want	G1014 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
νεωτέρας	neōteras	[the] younger [ones]	G3501 →
γαμεῖν,	gamein	to marry,	G1060 →
τεκνογονεῖν,	teknogonein	to bear children,	G5041 →
οἰκοδεσποτεῖν,	oikodespotein	to manage their households,	G3616 →
μηδεμίαν	mēdemian	no	G3367 →
ἀφορμὴν	aphormēn	occasion	G874 →
διδόναι	didonai	to give	G1325 →
τῷ	tō	to the [one]	G3588 →
ἀντικειμένῳ	antikeimenō	opposing	G480 →
λοιδορίας	loidorias	of reproach	G3059 →
χάριν·	charin	because;	G5484 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Titus 2:5
to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
leads to
- Proverbs 31:10–31
  A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
- Colossians 3:18
  Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- 1 Timothy 5:10
  and well known for good deeds such as bringing up children, entertaining strangers, washing the feet of the saints, imparting relief to the afflicted, and devoting herself to every good work.
- 1 Peter 3:1–5
  Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives
- 1 Timothy 5:13–14
  At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.
Through
Titus 2:8
and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:12
  Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.
- 1 Peter 2:15
  For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.
Through
1 Timothy 6:1
All who are under the yoke of slavery should regard their masters as fully worthy of honor, so that God’s name and our teaching will not be discredited.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:17–20
  Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 1 Timothy

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 1 Timothy