1 Timothy 5:4-9
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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.
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5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
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6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
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7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
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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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9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,