1 Timothy 5:1-5 ▼

1 You may not rebuke an elder, but exhort [him] as a father, younger persons as brothers,

2 aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters—in all purity;

3 honor widows who are really widows;

4 and if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety to their own house, and to give back a repayment to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

5 And she who is really a widow and desolate, has hoped on God, and remains in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,