Q1: What does it mean for widows who get married?
Paul talks about widows in 1 Corinthians 7. In line with the main point he is making he recommends they “remain” as they are. i.e. He says they will have more opportunities for serving Christ if they remain single. In 1 Cor 7 he is probably writing to older widows. Death brings a marriage to an end, as it does all other contracts. So widows are free to remarry.
He writes about young widows in 1 Timothy 5:11 where what he says reflects the situation of young women who have been married and had a normal sex life and then are widowed. In such a situation he would recommend they remarry.
Neil.
(thoughts or questions - neil@nac.asn.au)
1 week ago
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