1 Timothy 5:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let no one be put on the roll of widows [who are to receive church support] who is under sixty years of age or who has been the wife of more than one man;

American Standard Version (1901)

Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

Common English Bible

Put a widow on the list who is older than 60 years old and who was faithful to her husband.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let a widow be chosen who is no less than sixty years of age, who was the wife of one husband,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.

1 Timothy 5:9 Cross References

Leviticus 14:42

and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaister the house.

1 Timothy 3:12

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

1 Timothy 3:2

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, soberminded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

1 Timothy 5:11

But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

1 Timothy 5:14

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none occasion to the adversary for reviling:

1 Timothy 5:16

If any woman that believeth hath widows, let her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.