14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.



Ver. 14. Give none occasion to the adversary] The devil or his instruments, whose mouths he often borrows to blaspheme and rail with, who also watch as diligently for an occasion to speak evil of profession as a dog doth for a bone; they pry more narrowly into every miscarriage than Laban did into Jacob’s stuff.