1 Timothy 5:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

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  • 1 Tim 5:3-5 : 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew 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.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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

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

    3Honour widows that are widows indeed.

    4But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

    5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

    6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

    7And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

    8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

    9Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

    10Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.

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    14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

    15For some are already turned aside after Satan.

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    17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

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    27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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    4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

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    16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

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    6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

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    15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

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  • Rom 16:2
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    2That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

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    8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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