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If a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some return to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
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She who is a real widow, and is left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day;
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whereas she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
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Command this, so that they may be without reproach.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.