1. Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:
2. the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
3. Honour widows that are widows indeed.
4. But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to shew piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.
5. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
6. But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.
7. These things also command, that they may be without reproach.
8. But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.