1 Timothy 5:1-6 ▼

1 Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers,

2 older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters with all purity.

3 Support widows who are genuinely in need.

4 But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practice godliness toward their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.

5 The widow who is truly in need and left all alone has put her hope in God and continues night and day in her petitions and prayers;

6 however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.