But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord. Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,
As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,
who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
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