1. Do not speak angrily to an older man, but talk to him as if he were your father. Treat younger men like brothers.
2. Treat older women like mothers, and younger women like sisters. Always treat them in a pure way.
3. Take care of widows who are all alone.
4. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, the first thing they need to learn is to do their duty to their own family. When they do this, they will be repaying their parents or grandparents. That pleases God.
5. If a widow is all alone and without help, then she puts her hope in God and prays night and day for God’s help.
6. But the widow who uses her life to please herself is really dead while she is still living.