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14 Therefore I want younger widows[a] to marry, to have children, to keep house, and to give no opportunity for the enemy to slander them. 15 In fact, some have already turned away to follow Satan.

16 If any believing woman[b] has widows in her family, let her keep helping them rather than letting them become a burden to the church, so that the church may help those who are truly widows.

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  1. 1 Timothy 5:14 Or women
  2. 1 Timothy 5:16 Some witnesses to the text read believing man or woman.