1 Timothy 5:14
ContextNET © | So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us. 1 |
NIV © | So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. |
NASB © | Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach; |
NLT © | So I advise these younger widows to marry again, have children, and take care of their own homes. Then the enemy will not be able to say anything against them. |
MSG © | No, I'd rather the young widows go ahead and get married in the first place, have children, manage their homes, and not give critics any foothold for finding fault. |
BBE © | So it is my desire that the younger widows may be married and have children, controlling their families, and giving the Evil One no chance to say anything against them, |
NRSV © | So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us. |
NKJV © | Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully. |
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NET © | So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us. 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Grk “for the sake of reviling.” |