1 Timothy 5:9 Cross References - MLV

⁹ Do not let a widow be enrolled who is less than sixty years old, having become the wife of one man,

³⁶ And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, out of the tribe of Asher (she had advanced in many days, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, ³⁷ and she had been a widow approximately eighty four years), who did not withdraw from the temple, giving-divine service with fasts and supplications night and day.

¹⁰ But I command to those who have married, (not I, but the Lord): the wife is not to be separated from her husband, ¹¹ (but even if she is separated, let her remain unmarried, or let her be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband is not to leave his wife.

³⁹ A wife has been bound by law inasmuch time as the husband is living, but if the husband has fallen-asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wills, but only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is fortunate if she remains so, according to my viewpoint, and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

² Therefore, it is essential for the overseer to be: unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, orderly, hospitable, skilled in teaching;

¹² Let deacons be husbands of one wife, governing their children and their own houses well.

³ Honor widows who are really widows. ⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be devout toward their own family and to give back reimbursement to their parents; for this is acceptable in God’s sight.

¹¹ But renounce younger widows; for whenever they are promiscuous against the Christ, they wish to marry;

¹⁴ Therefore I will the younger widows to marry, to be childbearing, to manage the house, to never give a starting-point to those who lay in opposition to them because of reviling: