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Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,
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older women as mothers, younger as sisters, with all purity.
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Honor widows who are really widows.
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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God.
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Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
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But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
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And these things command, that they may be blameless.
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But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
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Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man,