3 Take care of widows who are truly widows.
4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to do their duty to their own family and to repay their parents or grandparents. That pleases God.
5 The true widow, who is all alone, puts her hope in God and continues to pray night and day for God’s help.
6 But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is alive.
7 Tell the believers to do these things so that no one can criticize them.
8 Whoever does not care for his own relatives, especially his own family members, has turned against the faith and is worse than someone who does not believe in God.
9 To be on the list of widows, a woman must be at least sixty years old. She must have been faithful to her husband.