that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.