{"id":141,"date":"2010-11-30T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2010\/11\/30\/welfare-and-the-bible-part-3\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:14:52","slug":"welfare-and-the-bible-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2010\/11\/30\/welfare-and-the-bible-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare and the Bible Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1Ti 5:3  Honour widows that are widows indeed.<br \/>1Ti 5:4  But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.<br \/>1Ti 5:5  Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.<br \/>1Ti 5:6  But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.<br \/>1Ti 5:7  And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.<br \/>1Ti 5:8  But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.<br \/>1Ti 5:9  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Let not a widow be taken into the number<\/span> under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,<br \/>1Ti 5:10  Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints&#8217; feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.<br \/>1Ti 5:11  But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;<br \/>1Ti 5:12  Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.<br \/>1Ti 5:13  And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.<br \/>1Ti 5:14  I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.<br \/>1Ti 5:15  For some are already turned aside after Satan.<br \/>1Ti 5:16  If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1Ti 5:3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.1Ti 5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.1Ti 5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}