The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all pureness.

[a][b]Honor widows, which are widows indeed.

[c]But if any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to show godliness [d]toward their own house, and [e]to recompense their kindred: [f]for that is an honest thing, and acceptable before God.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 5:3 The Apostle giveth these rules touching the care of widows.
  2. 1 Timothy 5:3 Have care of those widows which have need of help.
  3. 1 Timothy 5:4 Widows’ children and nephews must take care for their parents, according to their ability.
  4. 1 Timothy 5:4 The first reason, because that, that which they bestow upon theirs, they bestow it upon themselves.
  5. 1 Timothy 5:4 Another, because nature itself teacheth us to recompense our parents.
  6. 1 Timothy 5:4 The third: because this dutifulness pleaseth God.

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