1. Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as a father. Treat younger men as brothers,
2. older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters with complete purity.
3. Honor widows who are truly widows.
4. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let these first learn to perform their religious duty to their own family and to make recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing to God.
5. The real widow, who is all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
6. But the one who is self-indulgent is dead while she lives.
7. Command this, so that they may be irreproachable.
8. And whoever does not provide for relatives and especially family members has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
9. Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years old, married only once,
10. with a reputation for good works, namely, that she has raised children, practiced hospitality, washed the feet of the holy ones, helped those in distress, involved herself in every good work.