so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
But refuse to put younger widows on the list, for when their sensual desires alienate them from Christ, they want to marry,
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.
to older women as mothers, to younger women as sisters—with absolute purity.
Likewise, tell the older women to be reverent in behavior, not to be slanderers or enslaved to much wine; they are to teach what is good,
to be self-controlled, chaste, good managers of the household, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the word of God may not be discredited.