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1 Timothy 5:4

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But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

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  1. 1 Timothy 5:2

    The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

  2. 1 Timothy 5:3

    Honour widows that are widows indeed.

  3. 1 Timothy 5:5

    Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

  4. 1 Timothy 5:6

    But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.