2. treat older women like your mother, and treat younger women like your sisters with appropriate respect.
3. Take care of widows who are truly needy.
4. But if a particular widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to respect their own family and repay their parents, because this pleases God.
5. A widow who is truly needy and all alone puts her hope in God and keeps on going with requests and prayers, night and day.
6. But a widow who tries to live a life of luxury is dead even while she is alive.
7. Teach these things so that the families will be without fault.
8. But if someone doesn’t provide for their own family, and especially for a member of their household, they have denied the faith. They are worse than those who have no faith.
9. Put a widow on the list who is older than 60 years old and who was faithful to her husband.
10. She should have a reputation for doing good: raising children, providing hospitality to strangers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those in distress, and dedicating herself to every kind of good thing.
11. But don’t accept younger widows for the list. When their physical desires distract them from Christ, they will want to get married.