1 Timothy 5:12-14
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12 As a result, they will stop doing what they had earlier promised to do for the church. That will make them guilty.[a]
13 Young widows may learn to be lazy. They may go around from house to house. Not only do they become lazy, but they talk too much about silly things. They talk wrongly about other people and what they are doing. They say things that they ought not to say. 14 So I think that widows who are still young women should marry again. Then they can have children and they can take care of their own homes. If they live well like that, the enemy of God's people will not have a chance to say bad things against us.
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- 5:12 The church had a list of widows who needed help. These were widows who could serve God's people in a good way. The church would help them with food or money. Probably those widows had to promise to serve the church in some way. They may have promised to serve Christ and not to marry again.
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