1 Timothy 5:9 Cross References - Coverdale

⁹ Let no wedowe be chosen vnder threscore yeare olde, and soch one as was ye wife of one man,

³⁶ And there was a prophetisse, one Anna, the doughter of Phanuel of the trybe of Aser, which was of a greate age, and had lyued seuen yeares with hir hussbade from hir virginite, ³⁷ & had now bene a wedowe aboute foure score & foure yeares, which came neuer fro the teple, seruynge God wt fastynge and prayenge, daye and night:

¹⁰ But vnto them that are maried, commaunde not I, but the LORDE, that the wife separate not her selfe from the hussbande: ¹¹ but yf she separate her selfe, yt she remayne vnmaried, or be reconcyled to hir hussbande: and let not the hussbande put awaye his wife from him.

³⁹ The wife is bounde to the lawe, as longe as hir hussbande lyueth. But yf hir hussbande slepe, she is at liberty to mary vnto whom she wil, onely that it be done in the LORDE. ⁴⁰ But she is happier yf she so abyde after my iudgment. I thinke verely that I also haue the sprete of God.

² But a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, the hussbade of one wife, sober, discrete, manerly, harberous, apte to teach:

¹² Let the mynisters be, euery one the hussbade of one wyfe, and soch as rule their children well, and their owne housholdes.

³ Honor wedowes, which are true wedowes. ⁴ Yf eny wedowe haue children or neves, let them lerne first to rule their awne houses godly, and to recompence their elders. For yt is good & acceptable before God.

¹¹ But ye yonger wedowes refuse. For whan they haue begonne to waxe wanton agaynst Christ, then wil they mary,

¹⁴ I wil therfore that the yonger wemen mary, beare children, gyde the house, to geue ye aduersary no occasion to speake euell.