1 Timothy 5:16Open English Bible (Commonwealth)
Any Christian woman, who has relatives who are widows, ought to relieve them and not allow them to become a burden to the church, so that the church may relieve those widows who are really widowed.
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Then she took it up and went into the town and showed her mother-in-law what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her that which she had left from her meal after she had had enough.
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At midnight the man was startled and turned over, and there was a woman lying at his feet!
Ruth 3:11
My daughter, have no fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for the whole town knows that you are a virtuous woman.
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So she lay at his feet until morning, but rose before anyone could recognise her, for Boaz said, ‘No one must know that a woman came to the threshing-floor.’