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1 ) Rebuke not an elder, but implore him as a father, and the younger men as brethren,
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2 ) The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.
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3 ) Honour widows that are widows indeed.
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4 ) But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
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5 ) Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
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6 ) But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
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7 ) And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
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8 ) But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
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9 ) Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
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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.