1 Timothy 5:1-4 ▼

1 Don't treat a senior with harsh reproof, but exhort him as a father, and the young men, as brethren:

2 the elder women as mothers; the younger, as sisters, with all purity.

3 show regard to widows that are really such.

4 if a widow has children or grand-children, let them above all things instruct their own family to be religious, and let them be grateful to their parents, for this is acceptable to God.