1. Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brethren,
2. elder women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.
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.