Catholic Public Domain Version

1 Timothy 5:2-5 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

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.