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1 Timothy 5:7

Integrity

5 The widow who is truly in need and left all alone puts her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers.

6 But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

Give these instructions to the believers, so that they will be above reproach.

8 If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

9 A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Give these instructions to the believers, so that they will be above reproach.
KJV
And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
WEB
Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
ASV
These things also command, that they may be without reproach.
DARBY
And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.
BLB
Also command these things, so that they may be above reproach.
ÅB
Og dette skal du befale, for at de kan være ulastelige.
OTB
Gi også disse instruksjonene, slik at de kan være uangripelige.
B1930
Og dette skal du byde, forat de kan være ulastelige.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • 1 Timothy 4:11

    Command and teach these things.

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  • Titus 2:15

    Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

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  • 2 Timothy 4:1

    I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

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  • Titus 1:13

    This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sternly, so that they will be sound in the faith

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  • 1 Timothy 1:3

    As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines

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  • 1 Timothy 6:17

    Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

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