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But if anyone does not provide-for his own relatives, and especially family-members, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Let a widow be put-on-the-list[a] having become not fewer than sixty years old, a woman of one man[b], 10 being attested by good works: if she brought-up-children, if she received-strangers[c], if she washed the feet of saints, if she aided ones being afflicted, if she followed-after every good work.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 5:9 Or, enrolled, enlisted. That is, as financially supported by the church; or, as a deaconess serving the church.
  2. 1 Timothy 5:9 Or, a wife of one husband. Some think this refers in some sense to marital status; others, to marital fidelity.
  3. 1 Timothy 5:10 Or, showed-hospitality.

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