3 Honour widows who are really widows;
4 but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
5 Now she who is a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put her hope in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
6 But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead while living.
7 And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.
8 But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of his house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.
9 Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, having been wife of one man,