Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them. Let the church not be burdened, so that it may care for those who are truly widows.
Then they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and he shall take other plaster and plaster the house.