1st Timothy 5:9
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6 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.
7 Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
8 But if anyone doesn`t provide for his own, and specially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
9 Let none be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
10 well reported of for good works; if she has brought up children, if she has used hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints` feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.
11 But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
12 having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.