1 Timothy 5:3-9

3Support widows who are genuinely in need.

4But 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.

5The 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;

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

7Command this also, so that they will be above reproach.

8But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

9No widow is to be enrolled on the list for support unless she is at least sixty years old, has been the wife of one husband,