¹¹ But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

¹⁴ I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.

⁷ However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'

¹⁸ For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

⁵ You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

⁹ Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

³ forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

³⁹ A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

⁴⁰ But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

⁶ According to their pasture, so were they filled; They were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

¹⁶ Moreover Yahweh said, "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, And walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, Walking to trip as they go, Jingling ornaments on their feet;

¹⁵ But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.