So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.”
who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Then the high officials and the satraps sought to find a ground for complaint against Daniel with regard to the kingdom, but they could find no ground for complaint or any fault, because he was faithful, and no error or fault was found in him.
The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do.
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.
And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.” One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
Nevertheless, because by this deed you have utterly scorned the Lord, the child who is born to you shall die.”
They said to him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” And he said, “She is in the tent.”
And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.”
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