1 Timothy 5:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

Let not a widow be taken into the number vnder three score yeere olde, that hath beene the wife of one husband,

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  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honour widowes, which are widowes in deede. 4 But if any widowe haue children or nephewes, let them learne first to shewe godlinesse towarde their owne house, and to recompense their kinred: for that is an honest thing and acceptable before God.
  • 1 Tim 5:11 : 11 But refuse the yonger widowes: for when they haue begun to waxe wanton against Christ, they will marrie,
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I will therefore that the yonger women marie, and beare children, and gouerne the house, and giue none occasion to the aduersary to speake euill.
  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 And there was a Prophetesse, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser, which was of a great age, after she had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie: 37 And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings & prayers, night and day.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 And vnto ye maried I comand, not I, but ye Lord, Let not ye wife depart from her husband. 11 But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, & let not the husband put away his wife.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord. 40 But shee is more blessed, if she so abide, in my iudgement: and I thinke that I haue also the Spirite of God.

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  • 1 Tim 5:10-12
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    10 And well reported of for good woorkes: if shee haue nourished her children, if shee haue lodged the strangers, if shee haue washed the Saintes feete, if shee haue ministred vnto them which were in aduersitie, if shee were continually giuen vnto euery good woorke.

    11 But refuse the yonger widowes: for when they haue begun to waxe wanton against Christ, they will marrie,

    12 Hauing damnation, because they haue broken the first faith.

  • 1 Tim 5:1-8
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    1 Rebuke not an Elder, but exhort him as a father, and the yonger men as brethren,

    2 The elder women as mothers, the yonger as sisters, with all purenesse.

    3 Honour widowes, which are widowes in deede.

    4 But if any widowe haue children or nephewes, let them learne first to shewe godlinesse towarde their owne house, and to recompense their kinred: for that is an honest thing and acceptable before God.

    5 And shee that is a widowe in deede and left alone, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and praiers night and day.

    6 But shee that liueth in pleasure, is dead, while shee liueth.

    7 These things therefore warne them of, that they may be blamelesse.

    8 If there bee any that prouideth not for his owne, and namely for them of his housholde, hee denieth the faith, and is worse then an infidell.

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
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    16 If any faithfull man, or faithfull woman haue widowes, let them minister vnto them, and let not the Church bee charged, that there may bee sufficient for them that are widowes in deede.

    17 The Elders that rule well, let them be had in double honour, specially they which labour in the worde and doctrine,

  • 1 Tim 5:14
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    14 I will therefore that the yonger women marie, and beare children, and gouerne the house, and giue none occasion to the aduersary to speake euill.

  • Titus 1:6-7
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    6 If any be vnreproueable, the husbande of one wife, hauing faithfull children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient.

    7 For a Bishop must bee vnreproueable, as Gods steward, not froward, not angrie, not giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to filthie lucre,

  • Titus 2:2-5
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    2 That the elder men be watchful, graue, teperate, sounde in the faith, in loue, & in patience:

    3 The elder women likewise, that they be in such behauiour as becommeth holinesse, not false accusers, not subiect to much wine, but teachers of honest things,

    4 That they may instruct the yong women to be sober minded, that they loue their husbads, that they loue their children,

    5 That they be temperate, chaste, keeping at home, good & subiect vnto their husbands, that the word of God be not euill spoken of.

  • 1 Tim 3:11-12
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    11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.

    12 Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, and such as can rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

  • Num 30:9
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    9 (30:10) But euery vowe of a widowe, and of her that is diuorced (wherewith she hath bound her selfe) shall stand in effect with her.

  • 1 Tim 3:2
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    2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,

  • 1 Cor 7:39
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    39 The wife is bounde by the Lawe, as long as her husband liueth: but if her husband bee dead, shee is at libertie to marie with whome she will, onely in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:8-9
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    8 Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

    9 But if they cannot abstaine, let them marrie: for it is better to marrie then to burne.

  • Ps 109:9
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    9 Let his children be fatherlesse, and his wife a widowe.

  • 1 Cor 7:34-36
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    34 There is difference also betweene a virgine and a wife: the vnmaried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirite: but shee that is maried, careth for the things of the worlde, howe shee may please her husband.

    35 And this I speake for your owne commoditie, not to tangle you in a snare, but that yee followe that, which is honest, and that yee may cleaue fast vnto the Lord without separation.

    36 But if any man thinke that it is vncomely for his virgine, if shee passe the flower of her age, and neede so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them be maried.

  • Lev 21:13-14
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    13 Also he shall take a maide vnto his wife:

    14 But a widowe, or a diuorced woman, or a polluted, or an harlot, these shall he not marrie, but shall take a maide of his owne people to wife:

  • 1 Cor 7:11
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    11 But and if shee depart, let her remaine vnmaried, or be reconciled vnto her husband, & let not the husband put away his wife.

  • Ezek 44:22
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    22 Neither shall they take for their wiues a widowe, or her that is diuorced: but they shall take maidens of the seede of the house of Israel, or a widow that hath bene the widow of a Priest.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29 And this I say, brethren, because the time is short, hereafter that both they which haue wiues, be as though they had none:

  • Matt 22:25
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    25 Nowe there were with vs seuen brethren, and the first maried a wife, and deceased: and hauing none yssue, left his wife vnto his brother.

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    2 For the woman which is in subiection to a man, is bound by the Lawe to the man, while he liueth: but if the man bee dead, shee is deliuered from the lawe of the man.

    3 So then, if while the man liueth, she taketh another man, she shalbe called an adulteresse: but if the man be dead, she is free fro the Law, so that shee is not an adulteresse, though shee take another man.

  • Prov 5:17-18
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    17 But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

    18 Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

  • Deut 25:5
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    5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them dye & haue no sonne, the wife of the dead shall not marry without: that is, vnto a stranger, but his kinseman shall goe in vnto her, and take her to wife, and doe the kinsemans office to her.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2 Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

  • Luke 2:36-37
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    36 And there was a Prophetesse, one Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser, which was of a great age, after she had liued with an husband seuen yeeres from her virginitie:

    37 And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings & prayers, night and day.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
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    27 Art thou bounde vnto a wife? Seeke not to be loosed: art thou loosed from a wife? Seeke not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:25
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    25 Nowe concerning virgines, I haue no commaundement of the Lorde: but I giue mine aduise, as one that hath obtained mercie of the Lord to be faithfull.

  • Exod 21:10
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    10 If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.

  • Luke 20:29
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    29 Now there were seuen brethren, & the first tooke a wife, and he dyed without children.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
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    5 For euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.