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If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents; for this is pleasing in God’s sight. The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day; but the widow[a] who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.

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  1. 1 Timothy 5:6 Gk she

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