1 Timothy 5:9

Let no widow be enrolled under sixty years old, having become the wife of one man,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

In Context

8But if any man does not provide for his own, and especially those belonging his household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

10being testified in good works: if she has reared children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the feet of the sanctified, if she has relieved those who are afflicted, if she has followed every good work.

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Cross References

Leviticus 14:42And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones. And he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

1 Corinthians 7:10And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

1 Timothy 3:2The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

1 Timothy 5:3Support widows, the real widows.

1 Timothy 5:14I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 5:4-17

Directions Concerning Widows. ( a. d. 64.) 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. 5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. 7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. 8 But if any provide not… Read the whole commentary →

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