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Continue to give these instructions, so that they may be blameless. If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. A widow may be put on the widows’[a] list if she is at least sixty years old and has been the wife of one husband.[b]

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  1. 1 Timothy 5:9 The Gk. lacks widows’
  2. 1 Timothy 5:9 Or devoted to her husband; lit. a woman of one man

Give the people these instructions,(A) so that no one may be open to blame. Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied(B) the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

No widow may be put on the list of widows unless she is over sixty, has been faithful to her husband,

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