1 Timothy 5:3–16

³Honour widows ^dthat are widows indeed. ⁴But if any widow have children or ^enephews, let them learn first ^fto shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: ^gfor that is good and acceptable before God. ⁵Now ^dshe that is a widow indeed, and desolate, ^htrusteth in God, and ⁱcontinueth in supplications and prayers ^jnight and day. ⁶But she that liveth in pleasure ^kis dead while she liveth. ⁷And ^lthese things give in charge, that they may be ^mblameless. ⁸But if any provide not for ⁿhis own, and specially for ^othose of his own house, he hath ^pdenied the faith, and is worse than ^qan infidel. ⁹Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, ^rhaving been the wife of one man, ^10swell reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have ^tlodged strangers, if she have ^uwashed the saints’ feet, if she have ^vrelieved the afflicted, if she have ^wdiligently followed every ^xgood work. ¹¹But the younger widows ^yrefuse: for when they have begun to ^zwax wanton against Christ, ^athey will marry; ¹²having damnation, because they have ^bcast off their first faith. ¹³And withal they learn to be idle, ^cwandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but ^dtattlers also and ^ebusybodies, speaking things which they ought not. ¹⁴I will therefore ^fthat the younger women marry, bear children, ^gguide the house, ^hgive none ⁱoccasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. ¹⁵For some are already ^jturned aside after ^kSatan. ¹⁶If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them ^lrelieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may ^lrelieve ^mthem that are widows indeed.