1 Timothy 4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ 0 For therefore we labor and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

² 1 These things command and teach.

³ 2 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

⁴ 3 Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

⁵ 4 Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophesy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

⁶ 5 Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

⁷ 6 Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

⁸ An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father: young men, as brethren:

⁹ Old women, as mothers: young women, as sisters, in all chastity.

¹⁰ Honour widows, that are widows indeed.

¹¹ But if any widow have children, or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house, and to make a return of duty to her parents: for this is acceptable before God.

¹² But she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, let her trust in God, and continue in supplications and prayers night and day.

¹³ For she that liveth in pleasures, is dead while she is living.

¹⁴ And this give in charge, that they may be blameless.

¹⁵ But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

¹⁶ Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband.