For already some have turned aside after Satan.
In view of these possibilities Paul encouraged younger widows to remarry. In the ancient world most people expected that a widow would remarry. [Note: Bruce W. Winter, "Providentia for the Widows of 1 Timothy 5:3-16," Tyndale Bulletin 39 (1988):85; W. K. Lacey, The Family in Classical Greece, p. 117.] The apostle urged the younger widows to use their strength to bear children and to care for their families, the primary duties of a typical Christian wife (cf. Titus 2:5). The Greek word oikodespotein, translated "keep house" in the NASB, means "rule the house(hold)." Since the husband is ultimately responsible to God for what happens in his home (1 Timothy 3:4; Genesis 3:16), Paul must have meant that the wife is to rule over the household under his authority.