1. Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;
2. The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
3. Honor widows that are widows indeed.
4. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
5. Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
6. But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
7. And these things give in a charge, that they may be blameless.
8. But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.