1. Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
3. Honor widows that are widows indeed.
4. But if any widow hath children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
5. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
6. But she that liveth in pleasure, is dead while she liveth.
7. And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
8. But if any provideth not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.