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1 Timothy 5:14

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14 No, I'd rather the young widows go ahead and get married in the first place, have children, manage their homes, and not give critics any foothold for finding fault.
14 So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.
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