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1 Timothy 5:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The widow who is truly in need and left all alone has put her hope in God  and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;

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and was a widow for eighty-four years.  She did not leave the temple, serving God night and day with fasting and prayers.


For in the past, the holy  women who put their hope  in God also adorned themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands,


If any  believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it can help widows in genuine need.


I want you to be without concerns. The unmarried man is concerned about the things of the Lord #– #how he may please  the Lord.


Now he told them a parable on the need for them to pray  always and not give up.


Pray  at all times in the Spirit  with every prayer and request, and stay alert  with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints.


Will not God grant justice   to his elect   who cry out to him day and night?   Will he delay   helping them?


May the Lord reward you for what you have done,  and may you receive a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.’


and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord,  so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman is concerned about the things of the world #– #how she may please her husband.


that is, to be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.


Through him we have received grace and apostleship  to bring about  the obedience  of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles,  ,


the promise our twelve tribes hope to reach as they earnestly serve him night and day. King Agrippa, I am being accused by the Jews because of this hope.


He sent fire from on high  into my bones; he made it descend.  , He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, ill all day long.


‘Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth; burst into song and shout, you who have not been in labour! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married woman,’ says the Lord.


Who among you fears the  Lord and listens to his servant? Who among you walks in darkness, and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the  Lord; let him lean on his God.


Then you will say within yourself, “Who fathered these for me? I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive, exiled and wandering – but who brought them up? See, I was left by myself – but these, where did they come from? ” ’


Indeed, God is my salvation; I will trust him and not be afraid, for the Lord, the  Lord  himself, is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation.’


Then her gates  will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.


In those days, as the disciples  were increasing in number, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.


Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him to the room upstairs. And all the widows approached him, weeping and showing him the robes and clothes that Dorcas had made while she was with them.


He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. He called the saints and widows and presented her alive.


Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.


First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,


I thank God, whom I serve with a clear conscience  as my ancestors did, when I constantly remember you in my prayers night and day.





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