1 Timothy 5:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,
  • 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 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.
  • 1 Tim 5:11 : 11 and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,
  • 1 Tim 5:14 : 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;
  • Luke 2:36-37 : 36 And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity, 37 and she `is' a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,
  • 1 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband: 11 but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.
  • 1 Cor 7:39-40 : 39 A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord; 40 and she is happier if she may so remain -- according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

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

    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;

    11 and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

    12 having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

  • 1 Tim 5:1-8
    8 verses
    81%

    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;

    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,

    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.

  • 1 Tim 5:16-17
    2 verses
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    16 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.

    17 The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

  • 1 Tim 5:14
    78%

    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;

  • Titus 1:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6 if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

    7 for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

  • Titus 2:2-5
    4 verses
    72%

    2 aged men to be temperate, grave, sober, sound in the faith, in the love, in the endurance;

    3 aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

    4 that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of `their' husbands, lovers of `their' children,

    5 sober, pure, keepers of `their own' houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

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

    11 Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

    12 Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

  • Num 30:9
    72%

    9 `As to the vow of a widow or cast-out woman, all that she hath bound on her soul is established on her.

  • 1 Tim 3:2
    71%

    2 it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

  • 1 Cor 7:39
    70%

    39 A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

  • 1 Cor 7:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I `am';

    9 and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

  • Ps 109:9
    70%

    9 His sons are fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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

    34 The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

    35 And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

    36 and if any one doth think `it' to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

  • Lev 21:13-14
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    70%

    13 `And he taketh a wife in her virginity;

    14 widow, or cast out, or polluted one -- a harlot -- these he doth not take, but a virgin of his own people he doth take `for' a wife,

  • 1 Cor 7:11
    69%

    11 but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

  • Ezek 44:22
    69%

    22 And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but -- virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
    69%

    29 And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened -- that both those having wives may be as not having;

  • Matt 22:25
    69%

    25 `And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

  • Rom 7:2-3
    2 verses
    68%

    2 for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

    3 so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

  • Prov 5:17-18
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    68%

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

    18 Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

  • Deut 25:5
    68%

    5 `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

  • 1 Cor 7:2
    68%

    2 and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

  • Luke 2:36-37
    2 verses
    68%

    36 And there was Anna, a prophetess, daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher, she was much advanced in days, having lived with an husband seven years from her virginity,

    37 and she `is' a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,

  • 1 Cor 7:27
    68%

    27 Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

  • 1 Cor 7:25
    68%

    25 And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

  • Exod 21:10
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    10 `If another `woman' he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

  • Luke 20:29
    67%

    29 `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

  • 1 Pet 3:5
    67%

    5 for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,