1 Timothy 5

¹An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;

²aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters — in all purity;

³honour widows who are really widows;

⁴and 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.

⁵And 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,

⁶and she who is given to luxury, living — hath died;

⁷and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

⁸and 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.

⁹A widow — let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

¹⁰in 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;

¹¹and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

¹²having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

¹³and at the same time also, they learn [to be] idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;