Ruth 2:13

13Then she said, a“I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”

1 Samuel 25:39-42

39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, bBlessed be the Lord who has cavenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, dand has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. eThe Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and fspoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife. 40When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.” 41And she rose gand bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” 42And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.

1 Timothy 5:11-14

11But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when htheir passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry 12and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. 13Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also igossips and jbusybodies, saying what they should not. 14So I would have kyounger widows marry, bear children, lmanage their households, and mgive the adversary no occasion for slander.
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