Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

A widow

Bible References

A widow

1 Timothy 5:3
Honor widows who are truly widows.

Under

1 Timothy 5:11
But reject the younger widows: for when they may wax wanton against Christ, they wish to marry;
Luke 2:36
And Anna was a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher, herself being advanced in many days, having lived with her husband seven years from her virginity;

Having

1 Timothy 3:2
Therefore it behooves the bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, modest, prudent, orderly, hospitable, competent to teach,
1 Corinthians 7:10
But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband