1 Timothy 5:9
Good News Translation
Do not add any widow to the list of widows unless she is over sixty years of age. In addition, she must have been married only once

New Revised Standard Version
Let a widow be put on the list if she is not less than sixty years old and has been married only once;

Contemporary English Version
For a widow to be put on the list of widows, she must be at least 60 years old, and she must have been faithful in marriage.

New American Bible
Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years old, married only once,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.

a widow.

1 Timothy 5:3,4 Honour widows that are widows indeed. . . .

taken.

1 Timothy 5:11,14 But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry: . . .

Luke 2:36,37 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity. . . .

having.

1 Timothy 3:2,12 It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher, . . .

1 Corinthians 7:10,11,39,40 But to them that are married, not I, but the Lord, commandeth that the wife depart not from her husband. . . .

Context
Support for Widows
8But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. 9Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband. 10Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.…
Cross References
Luke 2:36
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.

1 Timothy 3:2
It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

1 Timothy 5:16
If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and let not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them that are widows indeed.

1 Timothy 5:8
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