1 Timothy 5:9

A widow — let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

Young's Literal Translation

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

8and if any one for his own — and especially for those of the household — doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

10in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

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Cross References

Leviticus 14:42and they have taken other stones, and brought [them] in unto the place of the stones, and other clay he taketh and hath daubed the house.

1 Corinthians 7:10and to the married I announce — not I, but the Lord — let not a wife separate from a husband:

1 Timothy 3:2it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

1 Timothy 5:3honour widows who are really widows;

1 Timothy 5:14I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

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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