Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.
It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,
But the younger widows avoid. For when they have grown wanton in Christ, they will marry:
I will therefore that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children, and their own houses.
If any of the faithful have widows, let him minister to them, and let not the church be charged: that there may be sufficient for them that are widows indeed.
And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were taken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.