¶ Let no widow be chosen under threescore year old, and such a one as was the wife of one man,
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife and such as rule their children well, and their own households.
Yee and a bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, sober, of honest behavior, honestly apparelled, harbourous, apt to teach,
The younger widows refuse. For when they have begun to wax wanton, to the dishonour of Christ, then will they marry,
¶ I will therefore that the younger women marry and bear children, and guide the house, and give none occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
And if any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them minister unto them, and let not the congregation be charged: that it may have sufficient for them that are widows in deed.