1 Timothy 5:3-9

3Honour widows who are really widows;

4but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to [their] parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of 1God.

5Now she who [is] a widow indeed, and is left alone, has put [her] hope in 2God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.

6But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead [while] living.

7And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.

8But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of [his] house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.

9Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, [having been] wife of one man,