1 Timothy 5:3-9

3Honor widows who are really widows—

4but if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to show devotion to their own home and give back to their parents, for this is pleasing before God.

5Now she who is really a widow and has been left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

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

7Insist on these things, so that they might be beyond criticism.

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

9Let a widow be listed only if she is at least sixty, was the wife of one husband,