1 Timothy 5:11

1 Tim. 5:11. "But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry." If appears probable from verse 15, "For some are already turned aside after Satan," that the Apostle here has in his eye some particular instance of a strange behavior of some young widows that had been taken into the number; a regard to which instances very much governs his language, as much as to say, If you take in young widows, no wonder if they, through a wanton disposition, behave themselves as those which you have received of the sort. No wonder if they gad about from house to house, grow idle, trifling busybodies, and are wanton in their behavior, and marry in a dishonorable manner such as they have first been wanton with. It is probable that in the instances which the Apostle had respect to, or one of them at least, a young widow that had been taken into the number, through her wantonness, had yielded to the enticements of a heathen man, and finally married him, which occasions such a manner of expression as "waxing wanton against Christ," and cast off their first faith. When the Apostle says, "For when they have begun," etc., the expression imparts no more than this: - There will be danger of such things happening in young widows.

1 Tim. 5:17