1 Timothy 5:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 5:3-5 : 3 honour widows who are really widows; 4 and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God. 5 And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

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    1 An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

    2 aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;

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    5 And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

    6 and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;

    7 and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

    8 and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

    9 A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

    10 in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

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    14 I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

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