1. You should not rebuke an old man, but rather plead with him, as if he were your father; with young men, like brothers;
2. with old women, like mothers; with young women, in all chastity, like sisters.
3. Honor those widows who are true widows.
4. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let her first learn to manage her own household, and to fulfill, in turn, her own obligation to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.
5. But she who is truly a widow and is destitute, let her hope in God, and let her be urgent in supplications and prayers, night and day.
6. For she who is living in pleasures is dead, while living.
7. And give instruction in this, so that they may be beyond reproach.
8. But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.
9. Let a widow be chosen who is no less than sixty years of age, who was the wife of one husband,