1 Timothy
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Contradictions
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Women
Injustice
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Family Values
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Family Values in 1 Timothy

1. "A bishop must be ... the husband of one wife." Apparently, it's OK for laymen to have several. 3:2

2. You should help a widow only if she 1) is over 60 years old, 2) had only one husband, 3) has raised children, 4) has lodged strangers, 5) has "washed the saints feet," 6) has relieved the afflicted, and 7) has "diligently followed very good work." Otherwise, let them starve. "But the younger widows refuse [to help]: for ... they will marry; having damnation." Besides the young widows are always idle tattlers -- "busybodies, spreading things which they ought not." He adds that "some are already turned aside after Satan." 5:9-15