Discovery Box1 Timothy 3:15 
Context3:15 in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves 1 in the household of God, because it is 2 the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.
1 Timothy 5:16
Context5:16 If a believing woman 3 has widows in her family, 4 let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need. 5
1 tn Grk “how it is necessary to behave.”
2 tn Grk “which is” (but the relative clause shows the reason for such conduct).
3 tc Most witnesses (D Ψ Ï sy) have πιστὸς ἤ (pisto" h) before πιστή (pisth), with the resultant meaning “if a believing man or woman.” But such looks to be a motivated reading, perhaps to bring some parity to the responsibilities of men and women listed here, and as a way of harmonizing with v. 4. Further, most of the earliest and best witnesses (א A C F G P 048 33 81 1175 1739 1881 co) lack the πιστὸς ἤ, strengthening the preference for the shorter reading.
4 tn Grk “has widows.”
5 tn Grk “the real widows,” “those who are really widows.”
