- 1. An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren;
- 2. aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;
- 3. honour widows who are really widows;
- 4. and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.
- 5. And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,
- 6. and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died;
- 7. and these things charge, that they may be blameless;
- 8. and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.
- 9. A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,
- 10. in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
- 11. and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,
- 12. having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,
- 13. and at the same time also, they learn `to be' idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;
- 14. I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;
- 15. for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.
- 16. If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.
- 17. The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,
- 18. for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy `is' the workman of his reward.'
- 19. Against an elder an accusation receive not, except upon two or three witnesses.
- 20. Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;
- 21. I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.
- 22. Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;
- 23. no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;
- 24. of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;
- 25. in like manner also the right works are manifest beforehand, and those that are otherwise are not able to be hid.
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