1. Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father, and the younger men as brethren,
2. the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity.
3. Honour widows that are widows indeed.
4. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let those learn first to govern their house in piety and to recompense their parents, for this is honest and pleasing before God.
5. Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate, trusts in God, and is diligent in supplications and prayers night and day,