2. older women as if they were your mothers, and younger women as if they were your sisters, while keeping yourself morally pure.
3. Honor widows who have no families.
4. The children or grandchildren of a widow must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents. This is pleasing in God’s sight.
5. A widow who has no family has placed her confidence in God by praying and asking for his help night and day.
6. But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead although she is still alive.
7. Insist on these things so that widows will have good reputations.
8. If anyone doesn’t take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the Christian faith and is worse than an unbeliever.