Let none be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against the Messiah, they will marry;
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.