that they nurture the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,
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.
the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all pureness.
And the elder women likewise that they be in such raiment, as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much drinking, but teachers of honest things,
to be of honest behaviour, chaste, housewifely, good, and obedient unto their own husbands, that the word of God be not evil spoken of.