A moment in scripture
1 Timothy 5:10
Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
The surrounding passage
- 1 Timothy 5:8
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
- 1 Timothy 5:9
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
- 1 Timothy 5:11
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
- 1 Timothy 5:12
Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.