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.