1. An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;
2. aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;
3. honour widows who are really widows;
4. and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
5. And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,
6. and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;
7. and these things charge, that they may be blameless;
8. and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
9. A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,
10. in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
11. and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,