| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | King James Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Honour widows that are widows indeed. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For some are already turned aside after Satan. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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