1 Timothy 5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house… Every mother should occupy in the family the position of commander-in chief. Her spirit should rule through the whole establishment, for in proportion as "she looks well to the ways of the household," with intelligence and discretion, the servants and other members of the family will follow in her path. There is nothing which ought to occupy a more prominent position than this power to rule the house diligently and well. Nor are we alone in this opinion. Goldsmith, in his "Vicar of Wakefield," says, "The modest virgin, the prudent wife, the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes." Every wife, therefore, should seek, then, to be worthy of the position she occupies and in this way to become "a crown to her husband." (John W. Kitten.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. |
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