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
Honour widows who are really in need.

Under

1 Timothy 5:11
But the younger widows you must not enrol; for as soon as they begin to chafe against the yoke of Christ, they want to marry,
Luke 2:36
There was also Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, belonging to the tribe of Asher. She was of a very great age, having had after her maidenhood seven years of married life,

Having

1 Timothy 3:2
A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;
1 Corinthians 7:10
But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;