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1 Timothy 5:2-10

1 Timothy 5:2-10 CSB

older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity. Support  widows  who are genuinely in need. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God. The widow who is truly in need and left all alone has put her hope in God  and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers; however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.  Command this also, so that they will be above reproach. But if anyone does not provide  for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith  and is worse than an unbeliever. No widow is to be enrolled on the list for support unless she is at least sixty years old, has been the wife of one husband, and is well known for good works   — that is, if she has brought up children, shown hospitality,  washed the saints’ feet,  helped the afflicted,  and devoted herself to every good work.

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1 Timothy 5:2-10 - older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity.

Support  widows  who are genuinely in need. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God. The widow who is truly in need and left all alone has put her hope in God  and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers; however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.  Command this also, so that they will be above reproach. But if anyone does not provide  for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith  and is worse than an unbeliever.
No widow is to be enrolled on the list for support unless she is at least sixty years old, has been the wife of one husband, and is well known for good works   — that is, if she has brought up children, shown hospitality,  washed the saints’ feet,  helped the afflicted,  and devoted herself to every good work.

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