that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;
I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, give none occasion to the adversary for reviling:
the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanour, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
to be soberminded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed: