"Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man."
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And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Honour widows that are widows indeed.
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
Let no woman be numbered among the widows who is under sixty years old, and only if she has been the wife of one man,
Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, [having been] wife of one man,
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man.
Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,