1 Timothy 5:9
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
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- 1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
- Luke 2:36–37 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
- 1 Timothy 5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;