1 Timothy 5:9

American Standard Version (1901)

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, [having been] the wife of one man,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honor widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
  • 1 Tim 5:11 : 11 But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:
  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, 37 and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband 11 (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

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  • 1 Tim 5:10-12
    3 verses
    83%

    10well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints' feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.

    11But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

    12having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

  • 1 Tim 5:1-8
    8 verses
    81%

    1Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

    2the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

    3Honor widows that are widows indeed.

    4But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

    5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

    6But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

    7These things also command, that they may be without reproach.

    8But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
    2 verses
    80%

    16If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

    17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    78%

    14I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:

  • Titus 1:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

    7For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

  • Titus 2:2-5
    4 verses
    72%

    2that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

    3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

    12Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well.

  • Num 30:9
    72%

    9But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, [even] everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • 1 Tim 3:2
    71%

    2The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    70%

    39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:8-9
    2 verses
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    8But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

    9But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

  • Ps 109:9
    70%

    9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.

  • 1 Cor 7:34-36
    3 verses
    70%

    34and is divided. [So] also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

    35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

    36But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    69%

    11(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

  • Ezek 44:22
    69%

    22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    69%

    29But this I say, brethren, the time is shortened, that henceforth both those that have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother;

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

  • Prov 5:17-18
    2 verses
    68%

    17Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

    18Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

  • Deut 25:5
    68%

    5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    68%

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Luke 2:36-37
    2 verses
    68%

    36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

    37and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    68%

    27Art thou bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:25
    68%

    25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.

  • Exod 21:10
    68%

    10If he take him another [wife] ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

  • Luke 20:29
    67%

    29There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless;

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    67%

    5For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: