Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Messiah, they desire to marry;
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for reviling.
If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.