1 Timothy 5:11
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
KJV
νεωτέρας δὲ χήρας παραιτοῦ· ὅταν γὰρ καταστρηνιάσωσιν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, γαμεῖν θέλουσιν,
Greek NT
Adolescentiores autem viduas devita : cum enim luxuriatæ fuerint in Christo, nubere volunt :
Vulgate
But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
ASV
But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry:
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
γαμέω
gameo
verb · 28×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
καταστρηνιάω
katastreniao
verb · 1×
νέος
neos
adjective · 23×
παραιτέομαι
paraiteomai
verb · 12×
χήρα
chera
noun · 26×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅταν
otan
conjunction · 123×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. In what has gone before he had shown that the sacrifices were unavailing for perfect purification, and were a type, and greatly defective. Since then there was this objection to his argument, If they are types, how is it that, after the truth has come, they have not ceased, nor given place, but are still performed? He here accordingly labors at this very point, showing that …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
- 1Cor 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.
- 1Tim 5:9 — Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
- 1Tim 5:14 — I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
- Hos 13:6 — According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
- Isa 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:
- Jas 5:5 — Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.