1 Timothy 5:9

World English Bible (2000)

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honor widows who are widows indeed. 4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
  • 1 Tim 5:11 : 11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown 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, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.
  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 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 for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband 11 (but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord. 40 But she is happier if she stays as she is, in my judgment, and I think that I also have God's Spirit.

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

    10 being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

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

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

  • 1 Tim 5:1-8
    8 verses
    81%

    1 Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

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

    3 Honor widows who are widows indeed.

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

    5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

    6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

    7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.

    8 But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
    2 verses
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    16 If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

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

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    78%

    14 I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

  • Titus 1:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

    7 For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

  • Titus 2:2-5
    4 verses
    72%

    2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

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

    4 that 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 God's word may not be blasphemed.

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

    11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

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

  • Num 30:9
    72%

    9 "But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • 1 Tim 3:2
    71%

    2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    70%

    39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:8-9
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    8 But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

    9 But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

  • Ps 109:9
    70%

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

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

    34 There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.

    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

    36 But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn't sin. Let them marry.

  • Lev 21:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 "'He shall take a wife in her virginity.

    14 A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    69%

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

  • Ezek 44:22
    69%

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

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    69%

    29 But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

  • Rom 7:2-3
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    68%

    2 For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

    3 So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • Prov 5:17-18
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    68%

    17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

    18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

  • Deut 25:5
    68%

    5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    68%

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

  • Luke 2:36-37
    2 verses
    68%

    36 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 for about eighty-four years), who didn't depart from the temple, worshipping with fastings and petitions night and day.

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    68%

    27 Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:25
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    25 Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

  • Exod 21:10
    68%

    10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

  • Luke 20:29
    67%

    29 There were therefore seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died childless.

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    67%

    5 For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: