1 Timothy 5:9 Cross References - WNT

⁹ No widow is to be put on the roll who is under sixty years of age.

³⁶ There was also Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, belonging to the tribe of Asher. She was of a very great age, having had after her maidenhood seven years of married life, ³⁷ and then being a widow of eighty-four years. She was never absent from the Temple, but worshipped, by day and by night, with fasting and prayer.

¹⁰ But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband; ¹¹ or if she has already left him, let her either remain as she is or be reconciled to him; and that a husband is not to send away his wife.

³⁹ A woman is bound to her husband during the whole period that he lives; but if her husband dies, she is at liberty to marry whom she will, provided that he is a Christian. ⁴⁰ But in my judgement, her state is a more enviable one if she remains as she is; and I also think that I have the Spirit of God.

² A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

¹² A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule his children and his own household wisely and well.

³ Honour widows who are really in need. ⁴ But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn first to show piety towards their own homes and to prove their gratitude to their parents; for this is well pleasing in the sight of God.

¹¹ But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they begin to chafe against the yoke of Christ, they want to marry,

¹⁴ I would therefore have the younger women marry, bear children, rule in domestic matters, and furnish the Adversary with no excuse for slander.