1 Timóteo 5

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1 Timóteo 5:9

Choose your "widows not under sixty years of age". Let the deaconess be a pure virgin; or, at the least, a widow who has been but once married, faithful, and well esteemed. — CONSTITUTIONS OF THE HOLY APOSTLES

1 Timóteo 5:11

But if you admit one younger into the order of widows, and she cannot bear her widowhood in her youth, and marries, she will procure indecent reflections on the glory of the order of the widows, and shall give an account to God; not because she married a second time, but because she has "waxed wanton against Christ," and not kept her promise, because she did not come and keep her promise with faith and the fear of God. Wherefore such a promise ought not to be rashly made, but with great caution: "for it is better for her not to vow, than to vow and not to pay." — Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book 3