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But the self-indulgent widow[a] is just as good as dead.

Continue to give these instructions, so that they may be blameless. If anyone does not take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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  1. 1 Timothy 5:6 Lit. the one

But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives.(A) Give the people these instructions,(B) so that no one may be open to blame. Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied(C) the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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