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| 5:1 |
An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;
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| 5:2 |
aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;
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| 5:3 |
honour widows who are really widows;
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| 5:4 |
and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
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| 5:5 |
And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,
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| 5:6 |
and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;
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| 5:7 |
and these things charge, that they may be blameless;
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| 5:8 |
and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
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| 5:9 |
A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,
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| 5:10 |
in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
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| 5:11 |
and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,
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| 5:12 |
having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,
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| 5:13 |
and at the same time also, they learn [to be] idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;
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| 5:14 |
I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;
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| 5:15 |
for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.
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| 5:16 |
If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.
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| 5:17 |
The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,
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| 5:18 |
for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy [is] the workman of his reward.'
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| 5:19 |
Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.
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| 5:20 |
Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;
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| 5:21 |
I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.
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| 5:22 |
Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;
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| 5:23 |
no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;
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| 5:24 |
of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;
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| 5:25 |
in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.
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