1. Never use harsh words when you correct an older man, but talk to him as if he were your father. Talk to younger men as if they were your brothers,
2. older women as if they were your mothers, and younger women as if they were your sisters, while keeping yourself morally pure.
3. Honor widows who have no families.
4. The children or grandchildren of a widow must first learn to respect their own family by repaying their parents. This is pleasing in God’s sight.
5. A widow who has no family has placed her confidence in God by praying and asking for his help night and day.
6. But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead although she is still alive.
7. Insist on these things so that widows will have good reputations.
8. If anyone doesn’t take care of his own relatives, especially his immediate family, he has denied the Christian faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
9. Any widow who had only one husband and is at least 60 years old should be put on your list ⌊of widows⌋.
10. People should tell about the good things she has done: raising children, being hospitable, taking care of believers’ needs, helping the suffering, or always doing good things.
11. Don’t include younger widows ⌊on your list⌋. Whenever their natural desires become stronger than their devotion to Christ, they’ll want to marry.
12. They condemn themselves by rejecting the Christian faith, the faith they first accepted.