that they might train the young women to be lovers of husbands, lovers of children,
But refuse younger widows; for whenever they grow lustful against Christ, they desire to marry,
Therefore, I purpose the younger women to marry, to bear children, to rule the house, giving no occasion to the one opposing, because of reproach.
older women as mothers, younger ones as sisters, in all purity.
aged women likewise in reverent behavior, not slanderers, not having been enslaved by much wine, teachers of good,
sensible, chaste, home-keepers, good, subject to their own husbands, so that the Word of God may not be blasphemed,