4. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
5. But the widow who is one truly, and is left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in her petitions and prayers night and day.
6. But the one who lives for sensual pleasure is dead even though she lives.
7. And command these things, in order that they may be irreproachable.
8. But if someone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
9. Let a widow be put on the list if she is not less than sixty years old, the wife of one husband,
10. being well-attested by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has helped those who are oppressed, if she has devoted herself to every good work.
11. But refuse younger widows, for whenever their physical desires lead them away from Christ, they want to marry,
12. thus incurring condemnation because they have broken their former pledge.