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Indeed be commanding these things in order that they may be above-reproach. 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],

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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.

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